Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Ashkāsham in Afghanistan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Ashkāsham in Afghanistan on Sunday. Event id: us6000pxul. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pxul. The temblor was reported at 21:16:18 / 9:16 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 96.948 km (60 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 71.2575 East, latitude 36.6514 North, depth = 96.948 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/03/25 / 2025-03-09 21:16:18 / March 9, 2025 @ 9:16 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 Fayzabad, Jurm, Ishqoshim. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 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 two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km W of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.2575° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6514° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	96.948 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24 km W 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	2025-03-09 21:16:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-09 21:37:48	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	284	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	2.683	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	178	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	us6000pxul	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pxul	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pxul,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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