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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Asadābād in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on September 21, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.7091S, 70.8631WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Asadābād in Afghanistan on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, 70.8631° East, 34.7091° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/08/25 / 2025-08-31 19:29:53 / August 31, 2025 @ 7:29 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000qxq3. Event ids that are associated: us7000qxq3. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:29:53 / 7:29 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tangi, Shabqadar, Pārūn. Event epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Jalālābād (c. 200 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Shabqadar (c. 66 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Asadābād (c. 48 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tangi (c. 29 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Mehtar Lām (c. 17 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Āsmār (c. 15 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 31 km SW of Asadābād, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.8631° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.7091° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31 km SW of Asadābād, 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 19:29:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-21 17:28:41 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 271 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 1.439 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us7000qxq3 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qxq3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qxq3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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