Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Jurm in Afghanistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Jurm in Afghanistan. Id of earthquake: us7000rex9. Event ids that are associated: us7000rex9. The temblor was reported at 08:48:18 / 8:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 70.5978° East, latitude 36.4287° North, depth = 203.322 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/11/25 / 2025-11-12 08:48:18 / November 12, 2025 @ 8:48 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 203.322 km (126 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ashkāsham, Fayzabad, Farkhār. Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 52 km SSW of Jurm, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.5978° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4287° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	203.322 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	52 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	2025-11-12 08:48:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-11 11:46:19	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	259	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.252	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	174	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	us7000rex9	Id of event.
Event Code	7000rex9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000rex9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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