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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Tel’mankend in Azerbaijan

Posted by admin on May 11, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.8651S, 48.6019WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Tel’mankend in Azerbaijan on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 62.74 km (39 miles). The temblor was reported at 07:24:21 / 7:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 48.6019° East, 39.8651° North, depth 62.74 km. Unique identifier: us10008re3. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008re3. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/05/17 / 2017-05-11 03:24:21 / May 11, 2017 @ 3:24 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Azerbaijan (c. 8 304 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Pārsābād (c. 101 700 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Saatlı (c. 87 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Şirvan (c. 70 200 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Salyan (c. 36 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Dzhalilabad (c. 36 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Agdzhabedy (c. 35 000 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Imishli (c. 34 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Boradigah, Avşar, Agdzhabedy.

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 17 km E of Tel’mankend, Azerbaijan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 48.6019° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.8651° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km E of Tel'mankend, Azerbaijan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-11 03:24:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-11 03:46:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 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 401 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 2.978 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us10008re3 Id of event.
Event Code 10008re3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008re3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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