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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Ashkāsham in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on August 6, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.6457S, 71.465WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Ashkāsham in Afghanistan. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qyh6. Unique identifier: us6000qyh6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/08/25 / 2025-08-06 06:49:22 / August 6, 2025 @ 6:49 am. The temblor was detected at 06:49:22 / 6:49 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 110.522 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 71.465 East, latitude 36.6457 North, depth = 110.522 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 7 km (5 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fayzabad, Khorugh, Khandūd (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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 SW of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 71.465° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6457° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.522 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km SW 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 2025-08-06 06:49:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-06 07:07:11 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.851 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us6000qyh6 Id of event.
Event Code 6000qyh6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qyh6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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