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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan

Posted by admin on December 14, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.3935S, 70.6765WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan in Afghanistan. Exact location of event, longitude 70.6765 East, latitude 36.3935 North, depth = 210.03 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004h1u. Id of event: us20004h1u. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 210.03 km (131 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/12/15 / 2015-12-14 13:45:40 / December 14, 2015 @ 1:45 pm. The temblor was reported at 18:15:40 / 6:15 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ishqoshim, Ashkāsham, Fayzabad (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Afghanistan (c. 29 121 000 pop), Tajikistan (c. 7 487 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Fayzabad (c. 44 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Ishqoshim (c. 26 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Ashkāsham (c. 12 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Jurm (c. 12 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Farkhār (c. 10 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 41 km NNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 70.6765° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3935° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 210.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km NNW of `Alaqahdari-ye Kiran wa Munjan, Afghanistan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-14 13:45:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-14 15:55:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 298 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.735 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us20004h1u Id of event.
Event Code 20004h1u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004h1u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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