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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 1 km NNE of Zaqatala, Azerbaijan


Earthquake location 41.6466S, 46.6471WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Zaqatala in Azerbaijan. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:29:20 / 7:29 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us600053lr. Event ids that are associated: us600053lr. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 46.6471 East, latitude 41.6466 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/08/19 / 2019-08-11 03:29:20 / August 11, 2019 @ 3:29 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (41 miles) from Sheki (c. 63 000 pop), 2 km (1 miles) from Zaqatala (c. 18 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Akhty (c. 14 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Qax (c. 12 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Gurjaani (c. 9 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Belokany (c. 9 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Akhty, Qvareli, Gurjaani. Close country/countries that might be effected, Azerbaijan (c. 8 304 000 pop), Georgia (c. 4 630 000 pop), Russia (c. 140 702 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km NNE of Zaqatala, Azerbaijan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 46.6471° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.6466° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NNE 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 2019-08-11 03:29:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-11 04:00:20 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 284 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 2.08 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us600053lr Id of event.
Event Code 600053lr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600053lr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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