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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Ashkāsham in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Ashkāsham in Afghanistan on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us7000qae2. Event ids that are associated: us7000qae2. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.4191 East, latitude 36.8038 North, depth = 156.77 km. The temblor was detected at 08:58:58 / 8:58 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 156.77 km (97 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/07/25 / 2025-07-03 08:58:58 / July 3, 2025 @ 8:58 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fayzabad, Khandūd, Khorugh. Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 16 km NW of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.4191° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8038° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	156.77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km NW 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	2025-07-03 08:58:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-04 05:47:55	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.728	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	164	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	us7000qae2	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qae2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qae2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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