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Earthquake happens on Armenia-Georgia border 

Earthquake happens on Armenia-Georgia border 

At 10:44 a.m. local time (at 6:44 a.m. GMT) on Aug. 2, an earthquake, measuring 3.0 on the Richter scale, happened on the Armenia-Georgia border, 16 kilometers northeast of Bavra village, the RA MIA Seismic Protection Territorial Survey says.

The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers at latitude 41․16⁰ north and at longitude 43.98⁰ east.

In the epicenter, the shock registered a magnitude of 4.

The earthquake was felt in Bavra, Saragyugh, Ghazanchi, Ashotsk and Musayelyan villages of Shirak Province with a magnitude of 2–3.