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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 47 km SSE of Jurm, Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Jurm in Afghanistan on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 03:17:24 / 3:17 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 191.668 km (119 miles). Event id: us6000rd14. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rd14. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/09/25 / 2025-09-26 03:17:24 / September 26, 2025 @ 3:17 am. Exact location, longitude 70.9507° East, latitude 36.4488° North, depth = 191.668 km.

Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Farkhār, Fayzabad, Ishqoshim. Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 47 km SSE of Jurm, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.9507° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4488° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	191.668 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47 km SSE of Jurm, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-09-26 03:17:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-26 03:34:16	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	340	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	62	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.226	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us6000rd14	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rd14	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rd14,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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