Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Farkhār in Afghanistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Farkhār in Afghanistan. The temblor was reported at 13:51:02 / 1:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 70.3066° East, latitude 36.4749° North, depth = 196.984 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 196.984 km (122 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/07/25 / 2025-07-25 13:51:02 / July 25, 2025 @ 1:51 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000qv4c. Event ids that are associated: us6000qv4c. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rustāq, Fayzabad, Taloqan (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 41 km ESE of Farkhār, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.3066° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4749° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	196.984 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41 km ESE of Farkhār, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-07-25 13:51:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-17 06:31:08	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.177	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	96	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	us6000qv4c	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qv4c	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qv4c,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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