YEREVAN. – The Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) of Armenia received information from the MES “Survey for Seismic Protection” Agency, on Friday at 2:09pm.

Accordingly, the Agency seismological network registered, on the same day between 11:03am and 1:24pm Armenia Standard Time, seventeen minor earthquakes, with magnitudes ranging from 0.5 to 1.4, 16 km southwest of Gavar town in Gegharkunik Province of the country.

The hypocenter of these tremors was 10km beneath the surface.

They measured a magnitude of 1 to 2 at the epicenter.