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Earthquake strikes Azerbaijan

21:47 / 30.08.2014

On August 30, at 22:30 from SPS, an information was received, that at 22:03 local time, a 3,7 Magnitude earthquake was registered in the territory of Azerbaijan, 19 kilometers south-east of Ujar city. The tremor measured magnitude 4-5 at the epicenter.

The geographical coordinates of the epicenter are north width 40.420 and east length 47.870.

The hypocenter of the seismic activity was 10 kilometers beneath the surface.

The underground shaking was felt in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic: in Stepanakert, Qarvachar and Hadrut cities with magnitude 2-3.

There were no casualties and damages.




 

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