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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Caspian Sea, offshore Azerbaijan


Earthquake location 38.7665S, 49.1279WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, Caspian Sea, offshore Azerbaijan kilometers (0 miles) from Caspian Sea, offshore Azerbaijan. All ids that are associated to the event: us700035lg. Unique identifier: us700035lg. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:16:46 / 11:16 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/04/19 / 2019-04-13 23:16:46 / April 13, 2019 @ 11:16 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 49.1279° East, 38.7665° North, depth 10 km.

Close country/countries, Azerbaijan (c. 8 304 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Lankaran (c. 240 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Āstārā (c. 39 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Dzhalilabad (c. 36 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Neftçala (c. 18 700 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Astara (c. 15 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Prishibinskoye (c. 13 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yardımlı, Dzhalilabad, Severo-Vostotchnyi Bank.

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Caspian Sea, offshore Azerbaijan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 49.1279° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7665° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Caspian Sea, offshore Azerbaijan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-13 23:16:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-21 00:32:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 246 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 4.28 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us700035lg Id of event.
Event Code 700035lg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700035lg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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