Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Jalālābād in Afghanistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Jalālābād in Afghanistan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 18:28:22 / 6:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 70.652 East, latitude 34.5736 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/09/25 / 2025-09-04 18:28:22 / September 4, 2025 @ 6:28 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000qtvn. Event ids that are associated: us7000qtvn.

Event epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Jalālābād (c. 200 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Shabqadar (c. 66 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Asadābād (c. 48 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Mehtar Lām (c. 17 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Āsmār (c. 15 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Markaz-e Woluswalī-ye Āchīn (c. 15 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Bāsawul (c. 6 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shabqadar, Āsmār, Asadābād. Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 24 km NE of Jalālābād, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.652° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.5736° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24 km NE of Jalālābād, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-09-04 18:28:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-04 18:59:45	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	312	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	44	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.254	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	141	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	us7000qtvn	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qtvn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qtvn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

70.652° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

34.5736° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

24 km NE of Jalālābād, Afghanistan

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2025-09-04 18:28:22

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2025-09-04 18:59:45

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

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

312

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.

Horizontal Distance

1.254

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.73 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

141

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us7000qtvn

Id of event.

Event Code

7000qtvn

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us7000qtvn,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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