M4.4 earthquake 50 km SW of Jurm, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck 50 km SW of Jurm, Badakhshan, Afghanistan at 16:09 local time (11:39 UTC) on 9 Oct 2026, at a depth of 203 km, according to USGS and GFZ.
Reported by 2 agencies · revised from M4.3
Data: USGS, GFZ · updated 2026-10-09 11:56 UTC · reviewed
- Magnitude
- 4.4light
body-wave magnitude (mb)
revised from 4.3 - Depth
- 203.1 km
- Status
- Reviewed
- Origin time
- 2026-10-09 11:39:04 UTC
- Local: 9 Oct 2026, 16:09:04 (Asia/Kabul)
- Epicentre
- 36.545° N, 70.432° E
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Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Est. shaking |
|---|---|---|
| JurmBadakhshan, Afghanistan · pop. 23,064 | 50 km | INot felt |
| FarkhārTakhar, Afghanistan · pop. 10,480 | 51 km | INot felt |
| FayzabadBadakhshan, Afghanistan · pop. 44,421 | 65 km | INot felt |
| BahārakBadakhshan, Afghanistan · pop. 32,551 | 66 km | INot felt |
| TaloqanTakhar, Afghanistan · pop. 64,256 | 83 km | INot felt |
| JalālābādNangarhar, Afghanistan · pop. 271,900 | 235 km | INot felt |
| KabulAfghanistan · pop. 4,434,550 | 252 km | INot felt |
| MingoraKhyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan · pop. 361,112 | 262 km | INot felt |
Shaking is an estimate from the intensity prediction equation of Allen, Wald & Worden (2012), not an observation. Local ground and buildings can change it by a level or more.
Every agency's solution
Agencies locate earthquakes with their own stations and methods, so their numbers differ. We match reports of the same event by time, distance and magnitude and show them side by side. The headline uses USGS, which has been reviewed by an analyst.
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How big was it?
Widely felt near the epicentre: rattling windows and objects. Significant damage is unlikely.
It released roughly the energy of 60 t of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step means about 32 times more energy and 10 times larger waves on a seismogram. Depth matters too: at 203 km this was a intermediate-depth earthquake, which spreads shaking over a wider area but less intensely.
M4.4 releases about 32× the energy of M3.4, and its waves are about 10× taller on a seismogram. Energy: 60 t of TNT vs 1.9 t of TNT.
Each square is the energy of one M3.4. Energy from log₁₀E = 1.5M + 4.8.
Aftershocks and nearby activity
No later earthquakes have been recorded within 30 km so far. 1 in the 7 days before. Aftershock rates usually fall off roughly in proportion to 1/time.
Did you feel it?
Reports from people help show where shaking was strong. They are anonymous and shown here in aggregate.
Reports on SeismoAtlas
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Event id gfz2026tuhk. First recorded here 9 Oct 2026, 11:56:01 UTC. Solutions: GFZ (geofon:gfz2026tuhk); USGS (usgs:us6000u15g). Cite as: SeismoAtlas, “M4.4 earthquake 50 km SW of Jurm, Badakhshan, Afghanistan”, https://seismoatlas.com/earthquake/gfz2026tuhk-m4-4-earthquake-50-km-sw-of-jurm-badakhshan-afghanistan, data from USGS, GFZ.
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