A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Gugark’ in Armenia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 44.537 East, latitude 40.8661 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/06/18 / 2018-06-06 13:07:17 / June 6, 2018 @ 1:07 pm. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:07:17 / 5:07 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000ejke. Unique identifier: us1000ejke. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hoktember, Tovuz, Metsamor (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Armenia (c. 2 968 000 pop), Georgia (c. 4 630 000 pop). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Yerevan (c. 1 093 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Gyumri (c. 148 400 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Vanadzor (c. 101 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Rust’avi (c. 50 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ejmiatsin (c. 49 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Hrazdan (c. 40 800 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every 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.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km N of Gugark’, Armenia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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