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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 14 km E of Barda, Azerbaijan


Earthquake location 40.3694S, 47.3019WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Barda in Azerbaijan on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, 47.3019° East, 40.3694° North, depth 56.5 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:27:40 / 5:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/11/17 / 2017-11-17 13:27:40 / November 17, 2017 @ 1:27 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bqbw. Id of event: us2000bqbw. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 56.5 km (35 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Azerbaijan (c. 8 304 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Ganja (c. 313 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mingelchaur (c. 95 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Sheki (c. 63 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Yevlakh (c. 59 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Xankandi (c. 53 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ağdam (c. 39 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sheki, Samux, Ganja (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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km E of Barda, Azerbaijan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 47.3019° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3694° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km E of Barda, Azerbaijan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-17 13:27:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-17 13:39:46 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 1.972 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us2000bqbw Id of event.
Event Code 2000bqbw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bqbw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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