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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Khandūd in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on October 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.8195S, 73.0817WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Khandūd in Afghanistan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 73.0817° East, 36.8195° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was detected at 10:51:02 / 10:51 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/10/25 / 2025-10-18 10:51:02 / October 18, 2025 @ 10:51 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ri0n. Id of event: us6000ri0n.

Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Khandūd (c. 5 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khandūd (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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. 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: 69 km ESE of Khandūd, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 73.0817° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8195° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69 km ESE of Khandūd, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-18 10:51:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-18 11:09:17 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 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.564 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 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 us6000ri0n Id of event.
Event Code 6000ri0n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ri0n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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