Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Geoktschai in Azerbaijan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Geoktschai in Azerbaijan on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 51.11 km (32 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 47.8054 East, latitude 40.6407 North, depth = 51.11 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/06/17 / 2017-06-16 13:41:14 / June 16, 2017 @ 1:41 pm. The temblor was reported at 17:41:14 / 5:41 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20009mzj. Event ids that are associated: us20009mzj.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saatlı, Akhty, Sabirabad. Nearby country/countries, Azerbaijan (c. 8 304 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Mingelchaur (c. 95 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Saatlı (c. 87 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Sheki (c. 63 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Yevlakh (c. 59 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Barda (c. 37 400 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Geoktschai (c. 35 300 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 5 km ESE of Geoktschai, Azerbaijan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	47.8054° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.6407° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	51.11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km ESE of Geoktschai, Azerbaijan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-06-16 13:41:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-24 06:52:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	2.391	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	us20009mzj	Id of event.
Event Code	20009mzj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20009mzj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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