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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Gedzhukh in Russia


Earthquake location 42.0359S, 48.05WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Gedzhukh in Russia on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000c1gc. Id of event: us2000c1gc. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/12/17 / 2017-12-07 05:23:38 / December 7, 2017 @ 5:23 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 48.05 East, latitude 42.0359 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 08:23:38 / 8:23 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 20 km (13 miles) from Derbent (c. 106 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Izberbash (c. 42 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Xaçmaz (c. 37 200 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Dagestanskiye Ogni (c. 27 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Quba (c. 22 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Belidzhi (c. 16 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Xaçmaz, Kurush, Karabudakhkent. Close country/countries, Azerbaijan (c. 8 304 000 pop), Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km S of Gedzhukh, Russia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 48.05° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.0359° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km S of Gedzhukh, Russia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-07 05:23:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-07 06:36:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 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 259 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 3.132 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us2000c1gc Id of event.
Event Code 2000c1gc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c1gc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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