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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 33 km SE of Qarah Bāgh, Afghanistan

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Earthquake location 34.7553S, 62.0635WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Qarah Bāgh in Afghanistan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 00:41:19 / 12:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/06/25 / 2025-06-20 00:41:19 / June 20, 2025 @ 12:41 am. Exact location of earthquake, 62.0635° East, 34.7553° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000qlcx. Event ids that are associated: us6000qlcx.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Herāt (c. 272 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kafir Qala (c. 18 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Karukh (c. 17 500 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Qarah Bāgh (c. 12 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kuhsān (c. 12 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Chahār Burj (c. 11 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Zindah Jān (c. 10 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kafir Qala, Kuhsān, Tīr Pul.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 33 km SE of Qarah Bāgh, Afghanistan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 62.0635° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.7553° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33 km SE of Qarah Bāgh, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-06-20 00:41:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-20 00:56:58 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 312 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 77 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.834 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us6000qlcx Id of event.
Event Code 6000qlcx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qlcx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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