Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Eceabat in Turkey

Posted by admin on July 24, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.3058S, 26.2615WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Eceabat in Turkey on Friday. Unique identifier: us20002zr5. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002zr5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 26.2615 East, latitude 40.3058 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 05:39:43 / 5:39 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/07/15 / 2015-07-24 02:39:43 / July 24, 2015 @ 2:39 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 22 km (13 miles) from Çanakkale (c. 87 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Alexandroúpoli (c. 53 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Keşan (c. 44 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Biga (c. 30 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Malkara (c. 27 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Çan (c. 26 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Gelibolu (c. 25 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Altınoluk, Malkara, Biga.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Did you feel anything?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 15 km NNW of Eceabat, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2015 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.2615° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3058° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NNW 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 02:39:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-24 02:57:12 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 354 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 0.61 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us20002zr5 Id of event.
Event Code 20002zr5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002zr5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2024 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today