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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Eceabat in Turkey

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Eceabat in Turkey on Friday. Unique identifier: us20002zqv. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002zqv. The temblor was detected at 04:26:02 / 4:26 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 26.2577° East, 40.2947° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/07/15 / 2015-07-24 01:26:02 / July 24, 2015 @ 1:26 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Altınoluk, Malkara, Biga. The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Çanakkale (c. 87 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Alexandroúpoli (c. 53 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Keşan (c. 44 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Biga (c. 30 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Malkara (c. 27 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Çan (c. 26 200 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km NW of Eceabat, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	26.2577° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.2947° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km NW of Eceabat, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-24 01:26:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-24 01:43:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	284	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	0.62	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us20002zqv	Id of event.
Event Code	20002zqv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20002zqv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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