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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Jalālābād in Afghanistan


Earthquake location 34.6067S, 70.7005WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Jalālābād in Afghanistan. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qsvy. Unique identifier: us7000qsvy. Global time and date of event 31/08/25 / 2025-08-31 20:29:38 / August 31, 2025 @ 8:29 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 70.7005° East, 34.6067° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:29:38 / 8:29 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 30 km (19 miles) from Jalālābād (c. 200 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Shabqadar (c. 66 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Asadābād (c. 48 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mehtar Lām (c. 17 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Āsmār (c. 15 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Markaz-e Woluswalī-ye Āchīn (c. 15 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pārūn, Shabqadar, Āsmār.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 30 km NE of Jalālābād, Afghanistan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.7005° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.6067° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 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 2025-08-31 20:29:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-21 16:39:20 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 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.295 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us7000qsvy Id of event.
Event Code 7000qsvy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qsvy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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