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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Paghm?n in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 34.6137S, 69.0512WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Paghm?n in Afghanistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 16:06:23 / 4:06 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 7.49 km (5 miles). Event id: us7000aiuv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000aiuv. Exact location of event, longitude 69.0512 East, latitude 34.6137 North, depth = 7.49 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/20 / 2020-07-06 16:06:23 / July 6, 2020 @ 4:06 pm.

Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Kabul (c. 3 043 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Bāzārak (c. 65 000 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Charikar (c. 53 700 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Paghmān (c. 49 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Barakī Barak (c. 22 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Jabal os Saraj (c. 15 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Pul-e ‘Alam (c. 13 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bāzārak, , Barakī Barak (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 9 km ENE of Paghm?n, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.0512° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.6137° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km ENE of Paghm?n, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-06 16:06:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-06 16:45:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 326 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.073 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000aiuv Id of event.
Event Code 7000aiuv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000aiuv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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