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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 8 km W of Elmadag, Turkey


Earthquake location 39.9248S, 33.1348WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Elmadag in Turkey. The temblor was picked up at 23:55:04 / 11:55 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2 km (1 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/06/15 / 2015-06-29 20:55:04 / June 29, 2015 @ 8:55 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 33.1348 East, latitude 39.9248 North, depth = 2 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002mfj. Id of event: us10002mfj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Güdül, Kaman, Orta (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 24 km (15 miles) from Ankara (c. 3 517 200 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Çankaya (c. 792 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Batikent (c. 300 000 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Kırıkkale (c. 211 100 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Çubuk (c. 62 600 pop).

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 have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km W of Elmadag, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 33.1348° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.9248° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km W of Elmadag, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-29 20:55:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-29 21:31:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.6 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 169 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002mfj Id of event.
Event Code 10002mfj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002mfj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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