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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Qobustan in Azerbaijan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Qobustan in Azerbaijan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000pxcy. Event ids that are associated: us6000pxcy. The temblor was reported at 04:21:42 / 4:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/03/25 / 2025-03-07 04:21:42 / March 7, 2025 @ 4:21 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 49.8143° East, 39.8436° North.

Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Baku (c. 1 116 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Sumqayıt (c. 265 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Qaraçuxur (c. 73 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Şirvan (c. 70 200 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Bakıxanov (c. 66 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Bilajari (c. 42 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Azerbaijan (c. 8 304 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hacı Zeynalabdin, Sumqayıt, Bilajer (min 5000 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km SE of Qobustan, 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	49.8143° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.8436° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43 km SE of Qobustan, Azerbaijan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-07 04:21:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-07 05:13:49	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	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	54	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.685	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.14 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	us6000pxcy	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pxcy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pxcy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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