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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Dasht-e Archī in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on September 24, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.1911S, 69.2656WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Dasht-e Archī in Afghanistan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000rchy. Event ids that are associated: us6000rchy. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/09/25 / 2025-09-24 09:32:33 / September 24, 2025 @ 9:32 am. The temblor was detected at 09:32:33 / 9:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 69.2656 East, latitude 37.1911 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Abdurahmoni Jomí, Kŭlob, Farkhār (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Kunduz (c. 161 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kŭlob (c. 78 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Khanabad (c. 71 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Qŭrghonteppa (c. 65 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Qarāwul (c. 24 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km NE of Dasht-e Archī, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 69.2656° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1911° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km NE of Dasht-e Archī, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-24 09:32:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-24 11:10:04 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 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.466 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us6000rchy Id of event.
Event Code 6000rchy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rchy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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