Today Earthquake 5.4 Afghanistan 2022-11-07 03:25:24

 M 5.4 - 32 km ENE of Jurm, Afghanistan

2022-11-07 03:25:24 (UTC)37.019°N 71.146°E103.1 km profundity

Regulatory District

ISO

AFG

Area

Badakhshan

Country

Afghanistan

Close by Spots

Jurm, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

32.6 km (20.2 mi) WSWPopulation: 12106

Ashkāsham, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

50.8 km (31.5 mi) SEPopulation: 12120

Fayzabad, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

51.4 km (31.9 mi) WNWPopulation: 44421

Ishqoshim, Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan

52.9 km (32.8 mi) SEPopulation: 26000

Khorugh, Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan

63.6 km (39.5 mi) NEPopulation: 30000

Distance and course from focal point to local spot.

Structural Synopsis

Seismotectonics of the Himalaya and Area

Seismicity in the Himalaya predominantly results from the mainland crash of the India and Eurasia plates, which are meeting at a general pace of 40-50 mm/yr. Toward the north underthrusting of India underneath Eurasia produces various quakes and thus makes this region one of the most seismically risky locales on The planet. The surface articulation of the plate limit is set apart by the lower regions of the north-south moving Sulaiman Reach in the west, the Indo-Burmese Bend in the east and the east-west moving Himalaya Front in the north of India.

The India-Eurasia plate limit is a diffuse limit, which in the locale close to the north of India, exists in the restrictions of the Indus-Tsangpo (likewise called the Yarlung-Zangbo) Stitch toward the north and the Really Front facing Push toward the south. The Indus-Tsangpo Stitch Zone is found about 200 km north of the Himalaya Front and is characterized by an uncovered ophiolite chain along its southern edge. The restricted (200km) Himalaya Front incorporates various east-west moving, equal designs. This locale has the most elevated paces of seismicity and biggest quakes in the Himalaya district, caused fundamentally by development on push flaws. Instances of critical quakes, in this thickly populated locale, brought about by switch slip development incorporate the 1934 M8.1 Bihar, the 1905 M7.5 Kangra and the 2005 M7.6 Kashmir seismic tremors. The last two brought about the most elevated losses of life for Himalaya tremors seen to date, together killing north of 100,000 individuals and leaving millions destitute. The biggest instrumentally recorded Himalaya tremor happened on fifteenth August 1950 in Assam, eastern India. This M8.6 right-parallel, strike-slip, quake was generally felt over an expansive area of focal Asia, making broad harm towns in the epicentral locale.

The Tibetan Level is arranged north of the Himalaya, extending around 1000km north-south and 2500km east-west, and is topographically and structurally complex with a few stitches which are many kilometer-long and for the most part pattern east-west. The Tibetan Level is cut by various enormous (1000km) east-west moving, left-parallel, strike-slip deficiencies, including the long Kunlun, Haiyuan, and the Altyn Tagh. Right-sidelong, strike-slip flaws (equivalent in size to the left-horizontal shortcomings), in this area incorporate the Karakorum, Red Stream, and Sagaing. Optional north-south moving typical blames likewise cut the Tibetan Level. Push issues are found towards the north and south of the Tibetan Level. On the whole, these issues oblige crustal shortening related with the continuous crash of the India and Eurasia plates, with push deficiencies obliging north south pressure, and ordinary and strike-slip obliging east-west augmentation.

Along the western edge of the Tibetan Level, nearby south-eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan, the India plate makes an interpretation of sideways comparative with the Eurasia plate, bringing about an intricate overlay and-push belt known as the Sulaiman Reach. Blaming in this district incorporates strike-slip, switch slip and diagonal slip movement and frequently brings about shallow, horrendous tremors. The dynamic, left-parallel, strike-slip Chaman shortcoming is the quickest moving shortcoming in the district. In 1505, a portion of the Chaman issue close to Kabul, Afghanistan, burst causing broad obliteration. In a similar district the later 30 May 1935, M7.6 Quetta tremor, which happened in the Sulaiman Reach in Pakistan, killed somewhere in the range of 30,000 and 60,000 individuals.

On the north-western side of the Tibetan Level, underneath the Pamir-Hindu Kush Piles of northern Afghanistan, tremors happen at profundities as incredible as 200 km because of leftover lithospheric subduction. The bended curve of profound seismic tremors found in the Hindu Kush Pamir district shows the presence of a lithospheric body at profundity, remembered to be remainders of a subducting piece. Get segments through the Hindu Kush district propose a close to vertical northerly-plunging subducting chunk, though get segments through the close by Pamir locale toward the east show a much shallower plunging, southerly subducting section. A few models propose the presence of two subduction zones; with the Indian plate being subducted underneath the Hindu Kush locale and the Eurasian plate being subducted underneath the Pamir district. In any case, different models recommend that only one of the two plates is being subducted and that the section has become reshaped and toppled in places.

Shallow crustal seismic tremors likewise happen around here close to the Principal Pamir Push and other dynamic Quaternary deficiencies. The Primary Pamir Push, north of the Pamir Mountains, is a functioning shortening structure. The northern part of the Principal Pamir Push produces many shallow tremors, while its western and eastern lines show a mix of pushed and strike-slip systems. On the 18 February 1911, the M7.4 Sarez tremor burst in the Focal Pamir Mountains, killing various individuals and setting off a landside, which obstructed the Murghab Stream.

Further north, the Tian Shan is a seismically dynamic intra-mainland mountain belt, which expands 2500 km in an ENE-WNW direction north of the Tarim Bowl. This belt is characterized by various east-west moving push shortcomings, making a compressional bowl and reach scene. It is for the most part felt that territorial anxieties related with the impact of the India and Eurasia plates are answerable for blaming in the locale. The locale has had three significant quakes (M7.6) toward the beginning of the twentieth Hundred years, including the 1902 Atushi tremor, which killed an expected 5,000 individuals. The reach is sliced through in the west by the 700-km-long, northwest-southeast striking, Talas-Ferghana dynamic right-parallel, strike-slip shortcoming situation. However the framework has created no serious quakes over the most recent 250 years, paleo-seismic examinations demonstrate that it can possibly deliver M7.0+ tremors and addressing a huge hazard is thought.

The northern piece of the Tibetan Level itself is generally overwhelmed by the movement on three enormous left-sidelong, strike-slip shortcoming frameworks; the Altyn Tagh, Kunlun and Haiyuan. The Altyn Tagh shortcoming is the longest of these strike slip deficiencies and obliging a critical piece of plate convergence is thought. Be that as it may, this framework has not experienced huge verifiable quakes, however paleoseismic concentrates on show proof of ancient M7.0-8.0 occasions. Push issues interface with the Altyn Tagh at its eastern and western ends. The Kunlun Shortcoming, south of the Altyn Tagh, is seismically dynamic, delivering enormous tremors, for example, the eighth November 1997, M7.6 Manyi quake and the fourteenth November 2001, M7.8 Kokoxili seismic tremor. The Haiyuan Shortcoming, in the far north-east, created the 16 December 1920, M7.8 seismic tremor that killed roughly 200,000 individuals and the 22 May 1927 M7.6 quake that killed 40,912.

The Longmen Shan push belt, along the eastern edge of the Tibetan Level, is a significant underlying element and structures a momentary zone between the unpredictably disfigured Songpan-Garze Overlap Belt and the generally undeformed Sichuan Bowl. On 12 May 2008, the push belt delivered the converse slip, M7.9 Wenchuan seismic tremor, killing north of 87,000 individuals and causing billions of US dollars in punitive fees and avalanches which dammed a few streams and lakes.

Southeast of the Tibetan Level are the right-parallel, strike-slip Red Waterway and the left-horizontal, strike-slip Xiangshuihe-Xiaojiang shortcoming frameworks. The Red Waterway Issue experienced huge scope, left-horizontal malleable shear during the Tertiary time frame prior to changing to its current day right-sidelong slip pace of around 5 mm/yr. This issue has delivered a few seismic tremors >M6.0 including the 4 January 1970, M7.5 quake in Tonghai which killed more than 10,000 individuals. Starting from the beginning of the twentieth hundred years, the Xiangshuihe-Xiaojiang Issue framework has created a few M7.0+ seismic tremors including the M7.5 Luhuo quake which cracked on the 22 April 1973. An examinations propose that because of the great slip rate on this issue, future huge seismic tremors are profoundly conceivable along the 65km stretch among Daofu and Qianning and the 135km stretch that goes through Kangding.

Shallow quakes inside the Indo-Burmese Bend, dominatingly happen on a mix of strike-slip and converse deficiencies, including the Sagaing, Kabaw and Dauki flaws. Somewhere in the range of 1930 and 1956, six M7.0+ quakes happened close to the right-horizontal Sagaing Issue, bringing about extreme harm in Myanmar including the age of avalanches, liquefaction and the deficiency of 610 lives. Profound seismic tremors (200km) have additionally been known to happen around here, these are believed to be because of the subduction of the eastwards plunging, India plate, however whether subduction is as of now dynamic is discussed. Inside the pre-instrumental period, the enormous Shillong quake happened on the 12 June 1897, causing inescapable annihilation.