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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Imishli in Azerbaijan


Earthquake location 40.0696S, 48.0692WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Imishli in Azerbaijan on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/08/16 / 2016-08-01 04:46:34 / August 1, 2016 @ 4:46 am. Event id: us1000693d. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000693d. Exact location of event, longitude 48.0692 East, latitude 40.0696 North, depth = 10 km. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:46:34 / 9:46 am (local time epicenter). 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.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Martakert, Qutqashen, Dzhalilabad (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Azerbaijan (c. 8 304 000 pop), Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Event epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Pārsābād (c. 101 700 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Saatlı (c. 87 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Şirvan (c. 70 200 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Yevlakh (c. 59 000 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Ağdam (c. 39 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Barda (c. 37 400 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Salyan (c. 36 600 pop).

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 struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 22 km N of Imishli, Azerbaijan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 48.0692° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.0696° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km N of Imishli, Azerbaijan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-01 04:46:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-01 05:14:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 432 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 2.553 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us1000693d Id of event.
Event Code 1000693d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000693d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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