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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Tsnori in Georgia


Earthquake location 41.4581S, 45.9224WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Tsnori in Georgia. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 45.9224° East, 41.4581° North. The temblor was detected at 22:25:40 / 10:25 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009l5y. Id of event: us20009l5y. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/06/17 / 2017-06-07 18:25:40 / June 7, 2017 @ 6:25 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kyadabek, Naghvarevi, Tbilisi. Nearby country/countries, Azerbaijan (c. 8 304 000 pop), Georgia (c. 4 630 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) from Tbilisi (c. 1 049 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Ganja (c. 313 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Rust’avi (c. 50 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Shamkhor (c. 35 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Telavi (c. 21 800 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Qazax (c. 18 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Marneuli (c. 18 800 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km SSW of Tsnori, Georgia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.9224° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.4581° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km SSW of Tsnori, Georgia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-07 18:25:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-07 23:55:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 12 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 344 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 0.576 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us20009l5y Id of event.
Event Code 20009l5y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009l5y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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