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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Jurm in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Jurm in Afghanistan. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pzz5. Unique identifier: us7000pzz5. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 214.261 km (133 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/05/25 / 2025-05-18 06:13:17 / May 18, 2025 @ 6:13 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 70.7716 East, latitude 36.5497 North, depth = 214.261 km. The temblor was detected at 06:13:17 / 6:13 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Farkhār, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-three 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 35 km S of Jurm, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.7716° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5497° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	214.261 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35 km S 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	2025-05-18 06:13:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-18 06:29:23	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	298	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	60	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.227	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	78	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	us7000pzz5	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pzz5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pzz5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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