Strong mag. 6.2 earthquake - Yamgān, 54 km south of Jurm, Badakhshan, Afghanistan, on Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 17:44 GMT
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Strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake at 210 km depth
1 Jan 00:00 UTC: First to report: USGS after 30 seconds.
Earthquake details
| Date & time | Oct 29, 2009 17:44:32 UTC |
| Local time at epicenter | |
| Status | Confirmed |
| Magnitude | 6.2 |
| Depth | 210.0 km |
| Epicenter latitude / longitude | 36.391°N / 70.722°E  (Yamgān, Badakhshan, Afghanistan) |
| Antipode | 36.391°S / 109.278°W |
| Shaking intensity | Light shaking near epicenter |
| Felt | 0 reports |
| Primary data source | USGS (United States Geological Survey) |
| Nearby towns and cities | 54 km (33 mi) S of Jurm (pop: 12,100) | Show on map | Quakes nearby 79 km (49 mi) WSW of Ashkāsham (Ishkashim) (pop: 12,100) | Show on map | Quakes nearby 80 km (50 mi) ESE of Farkhār (Farkhar, Takhar) (pop: 10,500) | Show on map | Quakes nearby 82 km (51 mi) S of Faizabad (pop: 44,400) | Show on map | Quakes nearby 88 km (55 mi) WSW of Ishqoshim (Ishkoshim, Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan) (pop: 26,000) | Show on map | Quakes nearby 113 km (70 mi) ESE of Taloqan (Takhār) (pop: 64,300) | Show on map | Quakes nearby 250 km (156 mi) NNE of Kabul (pop: 3,043,500) | Show on map | Quakes nearby 294 km (183 mi) SE of Duschanbe (Dushanbe, Tajikistan) (pop: 679,400) | Show on map | Quakes nearby 325 km (202 mi) E of Mazar-i-Sharif (Balkh) (pop: 303,300) | Show on map | Quakes nearby 364 km (226 mi) NW of Islamabad (Pakistan) (pop: 601,600) | Show on map | Quakes nearby |
| Estimated seismic energy released | 1.3 x 1014 joules (35 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 30089 tons of TNT or 1.9 atomic bombs!) | about seismic energy |
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| Mag. | Depth | Location | Source |
| 6.2 | 210 km | Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan | USGS |
User reports for this quake
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Aftershocks
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Recorded aftershocks, latest first (15 quakes)
Date and time | Mag Depth | Location | Details |
| Apr 26, 2010 08:27 12 years ago | 4.2 182 km | Yamgān, 37 km SW of Jurm, Badakhshan, Afghanistan | More |
| Apr 21, 2010 09:43 12 years ago | 4.0 95 km | Wurduj, 31 km SW of Ashkāsham, Ishkāshim, Badakhshan, Afghanistan | More |
| Mar 12, 2010 18:23 12 years ago | 4.2 187 km | Tagāb, 62 km S of Faizabad, Faīẕābād, Badakhshan, Afghanistan | More |
| Mar 6, 2010 02:53 12 years ago | 4.3 91 km | Chitrāl, 231 km N of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan | More |
| Feb 22, 2010 01:51 12 years ago | 4.7 105 km | Kuran Wa Munjan, Badakhshan, 64 km N of Pārūn, Nuristan, Afghanistan | More |
| Feb 16, 2010 10:05 12 years ago | 4.1 88 km | Zebak, 51 km SW of Ashkāsham, Ishkāshim, Badakhshan, Afghanistan | More |
| Feb 5, 2010 03:52 12 years ago | 4.4 171 km | 27 km S of Jurm, Badakhshan, Afghanistan | More |
| Jan 30, 2010 21:37 12 years ago | 5.0 93 km | Zebak, 22 km W of Ashkāsham, Ishkāshim, Badakhshan, Afghanistan | More |
| Jan 29, 2010 05:40 12 years ago | 4.2 102 km | Warsaj, 63 km SE of Farkhār, Takhar, Afghanistan | More |
| Jan 23, 2010 16:07 12 years ago | 5.1 93 km | Zebak, 18 km S of Ashkāsham, Ishkāshim, Badakhshan, Afghanistan | More |
| Jan 11, 2010 16:07 12 years ago | 4.6 105 km | Kuran Wa Munjan, Badakhshan, 69 km N of Pārūn, Nuristan, Afghanistan | More |
| Jan 11, 2010 16:07 12 years ago | 4.6 105 km | Kuran Wa Munjan, Badakhshan, 69 km N of Pārūn, Nuristan, Afghanistan | More |
| Dec 25, 2009 05:51 13 years ago | 4.7 103 km | Zebak, 52 km SW of Ashkāsham, Ishkāshim, Badakhshan, Afghanistan | More |
| Dec 21, 2009 23:15 13 years ago | 4.2 137 km | Kuran Wa Munjan, 69 km S of Jurm, Badakhshan, Afghanistan | More |
| Dec 13, 2009 08:12 13 years ago | 4.4 112 km | Chitrāl, Pakistan, 67 km SW of Ishqoshim, Tajikistan | More |
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