A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Qarqīn in Afghanistan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/10/25 / 2025-10-01 17:51:50 / October 1, 2025 @ 5:51 pm. Exact location, longitude 66.2685° East, latitude 37.4074° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 17:51:50 / 5:51 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000riwp. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000riwp.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tirmiz, Balkh, Qarchī Gak. Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Tirmiz (c. 140 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Balkh (c. 114 900 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Gowurdak (c. 34 700 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Qarqīn (c. 15 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Qarchī Gak (c. 8 900 pop). Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Turkmenistan (c. 4 941 000 pop), Uzbekistan (c. 27 866 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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