Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Ashkāsham in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Ashkāsham in Afghanistan on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 00:11:38 / 12:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 71.3742° East, latitude 36.7477° North, depth = 143.537 km. Event id: us6000pg7p. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pg7p. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/12/24 / 2024-12-29 00:11:38 / December 29, 2024 @ 12:11 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 143.537 km (89 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khandūd, Khorugh, Fayzabad (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 15 km WNW of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.3742° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7477° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	143.537 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 km WNW of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-29 00:11:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-17 22:22:40	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	259	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.592	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	176	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	us6000pg7p	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pg7p	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pg7p,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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