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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Jurm in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Jurm in Afghanistan. The temblor was reported at 01:18:18 / 1:18 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/08/24 / 2024-08-08 01:18:18 / August 8, 2024 @ 1:18 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 188.527 km (117 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.919 East, latitude 36.5915 North, depth = 188.527 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: usd0011l8c. Id of event: usd0011l8c.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Farkhār, Fayzabad, Ishqoshim. Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 31 km SSE of Jurm, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.919° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5915° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	188.527 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31 km SSE of Jurm, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-08 01:18:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-08 01:36:23	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	312	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	71	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.531	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	89	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	usd0011l8c	Id of event.
Event Code	d0011l8c	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,usd0011l8c,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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