Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Bāzārak in Afghanistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Bāzārak in Afghanistan. The temblor was reported at 14:51:03 / 2:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 69.4405° East, 35.3395° North, depth 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pwle. Id of event: us7000pwle. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 02/05/25 / 2025-05-02 14:51:03 / May 2, 2025 @ 2:51 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nahrīn, , Tagāb. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). The epicenter was 7 km (5 miles) from Bāzārak (c. 65 000 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Charikar (c. 53 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Nahrīn (c. 22 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Jabal os Saraj (c. 15 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Sidqābād (c. 7 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Tagāb (c. 6 400 pop).

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

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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. 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: 7 km WNW of Bāzārak, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	69.4405° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.3395° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km WNW of Bāzārak, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-02 14:51:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-27 07:30:27	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.86	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us7000pwle	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pwle	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pwle,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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