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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Jurm in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Jurm in Afghanistan on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000ri89. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ri89. The temblor was detected at 01:00:56 / 1:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/10/25 / 2025-10-20 01:00:56 / October 20, 2025 @ 1:00 am. Exact location of event, longitude 70.724 East, latitude 36.4799 North, depth = 200.351 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 200.351 km (124 miles).

The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ishqoshim, Farkhār, Ashkāsham (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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: 43 km SSW of Jurm, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.724° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4799° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	200.351 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43 km SSW 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	2025-10-20 01:00:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-20 01:26:11	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	271	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.305	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	177	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	us6000ri89	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ri89	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ri89,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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