Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Ashkāsham in Afghanistan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Ashkāsham in Afghanistan on Wednesday. Exact location of event, depth 128.261 km, 71.2715° East, 36.4432° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qrab. Unique identifier: us7000qrab. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 128.261 km (80 miles). The temblor was reported at 13:27:10 / 1:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/08/25 / 2025-08-27 13:27:10 / August 27, 2025 @ 1:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fayzabad, Jurm, Ishqoshim (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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: 35 km SW of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.2715° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4432° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	128.261 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35 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	2025-08-27 13:27:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-27 13:45:04	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	400	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	134	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.102	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	35	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000qrab	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qrab	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qrab,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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