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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Ashkāsham in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 36.5905S, 71.2444WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Ashkāsham in Afghanistan. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:00:02 / 5:00 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 217.263 km (135 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 217.263 km, 71.2444° East, 36.5905° North. Global time and date of event 25/06/25 / 2025-06-25 05:00:02 / June 25, 2025 @ 5:00 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us7000q8lx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000q8lx.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fayzabad, Jurm, Ishqoshim (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-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: 27 km WSW of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.2444° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5905° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 217.263 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27 km WSW 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 2025-06-25 05:00:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-24 11:18:15 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 259 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.983 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us7000q8lx Id of event.
Event Code 7000q8lx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000q8lx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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