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Monday, January 25, 2016

Azerbaijan quake also felt in Karabakh

An earthquake was recorded Friday in Azerbaijan, and it was also felt in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). The Ministry of Territorial Administration and Emergency Situations of Armenia informed that the seismological network of the ministry’s “Survey for Seismic Protection” Agency registered a tremor with a magnitude of 3.8, on Friday at 2:42pm local time, and its epicenter was in Azerbaijan. Its hypocenter was 10km beneath the surface. 
The quake measured a magnitude of 5 at the epicenter. The seismic activity was felt with a magnitude of 3 in capital city Stepanakert and in Hadrut town of the NKR.