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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Farkhār in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.1067S, 70.1154WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Farkhār in Afghanistan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.1154 East, latitude 36.1067 North, depth = 130.65 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:45:27 / 8:45 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000p9x2. Id of event: us7000p9x2. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 130.65 km (81 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/01/25 / 2025-01-29 20:45:27 / January 29, 2025 @ 8:45 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nahrīn, Taloqan, Farkhār. Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Nahrīn (c. 22 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 56 km SSE of Farkhār, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.1154° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1067° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 130.65 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56 km SSE of Farkhār, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-29 20:45:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-09 15:35:09 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 246 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.779 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us7000p9x2 Id of event.
Event Code 7000p9x2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000p9x2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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