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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Tlyarata in Russia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Tlyarata in Russia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/09/16 / 2016-09-07 16:57:50 / September 7, 2016 @ 4:57 pm. Id of earthquake: us10006mq7. Event ids that are associated: us10006mq7. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 54.57 km (34 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:57:50 / 7:57 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 46.6489° East, latitude 41.9564° North, depth = 54.57 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 36 km (22 miles) from Zaqatala (c. 18 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Qax (c. 12 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Gurjaani (c. 9 500 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Belokany (c. 9 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Aliabad (c. 9 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Qvareli (c. 8 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Azerbaijan (c. 8 304 000 pop), Georgia (c. 4 630 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ansalta, Untsukul’, Urkarakh (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 29 km SE of Tlyarata, Russia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	46.6489° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.9564° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	54.57 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	29km SE of Tlyarata, Russia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-09-07 16:57:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-07 21:36:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	1.691	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	78	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	us10006mq7	Id of event.
Event Code	10006mq7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006mq7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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