Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Jalālābād in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Jalālābād in Afghanistan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/09/25 / 2025-09-05 00:36:56 / September 5, 2025 @ 12:36 am. The temblor was detected at 00:36:56 / 12:36 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000qtzc. Event ids that are associated: us7000qtzc. Exact location, longitude 70.526° East, latitude 34.5599° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tagāb, Asadābād (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Jalālābād (c. 200 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Asadābād (c. 48 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Mehtar Lām (c. 17 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Markaz-e Woluswalī-ye Āchīn (c. 15 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from (c. 12 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Bāsawul (c. 6 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 16 km NNE of Jalālābād, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.526° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.5599° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km NNE 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	2025-09-05 00:36:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-29 23:03:17	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	259	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.149	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	231	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	us7000qtzc	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qtzc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qtzc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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