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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Laçın in Azerbaijan


Earthquake location 39.6587S, 46.51WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Laçın in Azerbaijan on Saturday. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:10:12 / 8:10 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/11/24 / 2024-11-23 08:10:12 / November 23, 2024 @ 8:10 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000p77p. Event ids that are associated: us6000p77p. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 46.51 East, latitude 39.6587 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Xankandi (c. 53 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Ağdam (c. 39 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Agdzhabedy (c. 35 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Kapan (c. 33 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Fizuli (c. 26 800 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Goris (c. 20 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ordubad, Agdzhabedy, Vayk’. Close country/countries, Armenia (c. 2 968 000 pop), Azerbaijan (c. 8 304 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 7 km NNW of Laçın, Azerbaijan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 46.51° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.6587° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km NNW of Laçın, Azerbaijan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-23 08:10:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-23 08:33:24 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 298 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 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.334 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us6000p77p Id of event.
Event Code 6000p77p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000p77p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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