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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Amasia in Armenia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Amasia in Armenia. Unique identifier: us6000rl2c. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rl2c. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.278 km (8 miles). Exact location, longitude 43.8574° East, latitude 41.0853° North, depth = 12.278 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/11/25 / 2025-11-02 15:49:31 / November 2, 2025 @ 3:49 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 15:49:31 / 3:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Armenia (c. 2 968 000 pop), Georgia (c. 4 630 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 32 km (20 miles) from Gyumri (c. 148 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Vanadzor (c. 101 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kars (c. 77 500 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Marneuli (c. 18 800 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Spitak (c. 15 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Borjomi (c. 13 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dilijan, Borjomi, Marneuli.

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

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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: 15 km NNE of Amasia, Armenia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	43.8574° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	41.0853° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.278 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 km NNE of Amasia, Armenia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-02 15:49:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-02 17:39:39	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.17	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	91	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	us6000rl2c	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rl2c	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rl2c,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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