Quakedle
Puzzle #37 was 40 km WSW of Asadābād, Afghanistan.
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USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M5.6 — moderate class
- Magnitude type
- mww — W-phase moment magnitude
- Depth
- 16.5 km — shallow
- Region
- Central Asia
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator not set
- Felt reports
- 84 DYFI reports
- PAGER alert
- red PAGER alert
- Tectonic plates
- Indian Plate · Eurasian Plate
- Tectonic context
- Far-field effects of India–Eurasia collision deform a broad zone of Central Asia through thrust and strike-slip faults.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M5.6. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Moderate (M5.0–5.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 16.5 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Shallow (less than 70 km)
- USGS locates the event at “40 km WSW of Asadābād, Afghanistan”. Which broad authored region matches?
- Central Asia
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- No — USGS did not set the event’s tsunami indicator; that is not a forecast.
- Is this the largest earthquake in the supplied USGS week comparison?
- No — at least one supplied week event has a higher magnitude.