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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Rustāq in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Rustāq in Afghanistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000rkyf. Event ids that are associated: us6000rkyf. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 70.0035 East, latitude 37.3514 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/11/25 / 2025-11-01 19:03:56 / November 1, 2025 @ 7:03 pm. The temblor was detected at 19:03:56 / 7:03 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Danghara, , Jurm. The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Kŭlob (c. 78 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Danghara (c. 22 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Farkhor (c. 21 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Vose’ (c. 21 700 pop).

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 two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 29 km NNE of Rustāq, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.0035° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.3514° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29 km NNE of Rustāq, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-01 19:03:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-01 19:21:19	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	369	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	74	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.464	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	us6000rkyf	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rkyf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rkyf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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