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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Ortaca in Turkey


Earthquake location 37.1118S, 28.7932WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Ortaca in Turkey on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 21:35:53 / 9:35 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.08 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 28.7932 East, latitude 37.1118 North, depth = 1.08 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/07/15 / 2015-07-25 18:35:53 / July 25, 2015 @ 6:35 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us2000303q. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000303q. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tefenni, Çine, Honaz (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Denizli (c. 313 200 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Fethiye (c. 60 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Muğla (c. 48 200 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Marmaris (c. 33 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Çine (c. 21 300 pop), 31 km (20 miles) from Ortaca (c. 19 700 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 31 km N of Ortaca, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 28.7932° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1118° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km N of Ortaca, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-25 18:35:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-25 20:53:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 246 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 0.964 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us2000303q Id of event.
Event Code 2000303q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000303q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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