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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Zaqatala in Azerbaijan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Zaqatala in Azerbaijan on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 46.6255° East, 41.6746° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600053bb. Id of event: us600053bb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 11:35:10 / 11:35 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/08/19 / 2019-08-10 07:35:10 / August 10, 2019 @ 7:35 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from Sheki (c. 63 000 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Telavi (c. 21 800 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Zaqatala (c. 18 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Akhty (c. 14 100 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Qax (c. 12 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Gurjaani (c. 9 500 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Belokany (c. 9 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Samux, Qarayeri, Levashi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Azerbaijan (c. 8 304 000 pop), Georgia (c. 4 630 000 pop), Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 4 km NNW of Zaqatala, Azerbaijan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	46.6255° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.6746° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km NNW of Zaqatala, Azerbaijan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-08-10 07:35:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-10 07:52:50	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	369	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	2.089	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 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	us600053bb	Id of event.
Event Code	600053bb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600053bb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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