Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 26 km SW of Jurm, Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Jurm in Afghanistan. Exact location of event, longitude 70.6415 East, latitude 36.6819 North, depth = 270.252 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:07:01 / 10:07 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000rlq6. Event ids that are associated: us6000rlq6. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 270.252 km (168 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/10/25 / 2025-10-15 10:07:01 / October 15, 2025 @ 10:07 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rustāq, Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-two 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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.6415° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6819° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	270.252 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26 km SW 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	2025-10-15 10:07:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-08 06:43:37	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	40	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.191	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	91	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	us6000rlq6	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rlq6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rlq6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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