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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Jurm in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on June 11, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.5328S, 70.6591WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Jurm in Afghanistan on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/06/25 / 2025-06-11 04:45:23 / June 11, 2025 @ 4:45 am. Exact location, longitude 70.6591° East, latitude 36.5328° North, depth = 215.471 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 215.471 km (134 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000qjhm. Event ids that are associated: us6000qjhm. The temblor was detected at 04:45:23 / 4:45 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham, Farkhār. Epicenter of the event was 65 km (41 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 40 km SSW 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 70.6591° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5328° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 215.471 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40 km SSW 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 2025-06-11 04:45:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-11 05:01:16 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 72 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.295 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us6000qjhm Id of event.
Event Code 6000qjhm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qjhm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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