Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Farkhār in Afghanistan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Farkhār in Afghanistan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 70.2681 East, latitude 36.4762 North, depth = 200.224 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/11/25 / 2025-11-21 07:29:10 / November 21, 2025 @ 7:29 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000rtnd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rtnd. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 200.224 km (124 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:29:10 / 7:29 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rustāq, Fayzabad, Taloqan. The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) from Taloqan (c. 64 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Rustāq (c. 25 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 38 km ESE of Farkhār, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	70.2681° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4762° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	200.224 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38 km ESE of Farkhār, Afghanistan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-21 07:29:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-13 07:22:53	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	246	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.164	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.48 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	162	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	us6000rtnd	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rtnd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rtnd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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