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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Jalālābād in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on September 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 34.5763S, 70.6337WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Jalālābād in Afghanistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/09/25 / 2025-09-23 10:50:33 / September 23, 2025 @ 10:50 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 70.6337° East, 34.5763° North. Id of earthquake: us6000rc98. Event ids that are associated: us6000rc98. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:50:33 / 10:50 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tangi, Pārūn (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Jalālābād (c. 200 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Shabqadar (c. 66 500 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Asadābād (c. 48 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Tangi (c. 29 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mehtar Lām (c. 17 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Āsmār (c. 15 700 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Markaz-e Woluswalī-ye Āchīn (c. 15 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 23 km NE of Jalālābād, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.6337° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.5763° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23 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 2025-09-23 10:50:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-23 11:36:03 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 369 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 75 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.239 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us6000rc98 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rc98 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rc98, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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