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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Ashkāsham in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Ashkāsham in Afghanistan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/11/25 / 2025-11-20 21:39:13 / November 20, 2025 @ 9:39 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 71.2594° East, latitude 36.2315° North, depth = 110.698 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 110.698 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:39:13 / 9:39 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000rpg9. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rpg9.

The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Pārūn (c. 1 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pārūn, Jurm, Ishqoshim. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 55 km SSW of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.2594° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.2315° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	110.698 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55 km SSW of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-20 21:39:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-20 21:56:58	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	81	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.296	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us6000rpg9	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rpg9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rpg9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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