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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 21 km E of Jalālābād, Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Jalālābād in Afghanistan on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000rfiu. Event ids that are associated: us6000rfiu. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:18:37 / 3:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 70.6816° East, 34.4121° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 08/10/25 / 2025-10-08 03:18:37 / October 8, 2025 @ 3:18 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Peshawar, Āsmār, Tangi. The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Peshawar (c. 1 218 800 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Jalālābād (c. 200 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Shabqadar (c. 66 500 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Asadābād (c. 48 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Tangi (c. 29 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mehtar Lām (c. 17 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 three and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 21 km E of Jalālābād, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.6816° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.4121° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km E 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	2025-10-08 03:18:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-08 03:40:26	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	298	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.282	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	87	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	us6000rfiu	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rfiu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rfiu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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