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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Georgia-Turkey border region

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes Georgia-Turkey border region kilometers (0 miles) from Georgia-Turkey border region on Sunday. Id of earthquake: us7000am6g. Event ids that are associated: us7000am6g. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 12/07/20 / 2020-07-12 05:54:55 / July 12, 2020 @ 5:54 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 05:54:55 / 5:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 43.8066° East, 41.8263° North, depth 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Marneuli, Gudauri, Tqibuli (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Georgia (c. 4 630 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (54 miles) from Tbilisi (c. 1 049 500 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Gori (c. 46 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Ts’khinvali (c. 30 000 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Khashuri (c. 27 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Zestap’oni (c. 25 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Marneuli (c. 18 800 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 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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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Georgia-Turkey border region.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	43.8066° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.8263° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Georgia-Turkey border region	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-07-12 05:54:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-12 06:15:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	285	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	1.819	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50	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	us7000am6g	Id of event.
Event Code	7000am6g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000am6g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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