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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 15 km ENE of Zarrit’ap’, Armenia


Earthquake location 39.6725S, 45.6912WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Zarrit’ap’ in Armenia on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000d2pa. Unique identifier: us7000d2pa. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/01/21 / 2021-01-23 13:22:30 / January 23, 2021 @ 1:22 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 45.6912° East, 39.6725° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 13:22:30 / 1:22 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (35 miles) from Nakhchivan (c. 64 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Xankandi (c. 53 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kapan (c. 33 200 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Ararat (c. 28 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Gavarr (c. 21 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Goris (c. 20 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Xankandi, Shushi, Ordubad (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Armenia (c. 2 968 000 pop), Azerbaijan (c. 8 304 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 has struck near.

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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: 15 km ENE of Zarrit’ap’, Armenia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 45.6912° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.6725° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km ENE of Zarrit’ap’, Armenia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-23 13:22:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-23 14:56:11 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.871 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us7000d2pa Id of event.
Event Code 7000d2pa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d2pa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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