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Earthquake: M 4 quake strikes near Aghsu in Azerbaijan


Earthquake location 40.2998S, 48.5198WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (mg/mb) has striked on Monday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Aghsu in Azerbaijan. The temblor was reported at 05:12:32 / 5:12 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time of event 2015-02-09 01:12:32 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 48.5198 East, latitude 40.2998 North, depth 10 km.

Close countries, Azerbaijan (c. 8 304 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Pārsābād (c. 101 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Saatlı (c. 87 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Şirvan (c. 70 200 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Salyan (c. 36 600 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Geoktschai (c. 35 300 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pārsābād, Salyan, Dünyamalılar.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 48.5198° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.2998° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km SSE of Aghsu, Azerbaijan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-02-09 01:12:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-02-19 03:06:55 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 246 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 2.897 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 usc000tn9p Id of event.
Event Code c000tn9p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usc000tn9p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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