Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Jurm in Afghanistan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Jurm in Afghanistan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 205.599 km (128 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000retv. Id of event: us7000retv. The temblor was detected at 04:51:06 / 4:51 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/12/25 / 2025-12-01 04:51:06 / December 1, 2025 @ 4:51 am. Exact location, longitude 71.0559° East, latitude 36.8332° North, depth = 205.599 km.

Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Khorugh (c. 30 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Khorugh, Fayzabad, Ishqoshim.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and nineteen 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km E of Jurm, Afghanistan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	71.0559° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8332° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	205.599 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km E 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	2025-12-01 04:51:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-25 00:35:46	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	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.863	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.44 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	185	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	us7000retv	Id of event.
Event Code	7000retv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000retv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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