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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 18 km ESE of Göyçay, Azerbaijan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Göyçay in Azerbaijan on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qzfd. Id of event: us6000qzfd. The temblor was picked up at 07:03:34 / 7:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/08/25 / 2025-08-09 07:03:34 / August 9, 2025 @ 7:03 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 47.9307 East, latitude 40.5727 North, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Beylagan, Qızılhacılı, Dünyamalılar. Nearby country/countries, Azerbaijan (c. 8 304 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (48 miles) from Mingelchaur (c. 95 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Saatlı (c. 87 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Yevlakh (c. 59 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barda (c. 37 400 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Geoktschai (c. 35 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Agdzhabedy (c. 35 000 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km ESE of Göyçay, Azerbaijan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	47.9307° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.5727° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km ESE of Göyçay, Azerbaijan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-09 07:03:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-09 07:17:43	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	284	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.583	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	78	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	us6000qzfd	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qzfd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qzfd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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