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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Konak in Turkey


Earthquake location 37.1443S, 28.9664WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Konak in Turkey. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20003j43. Event ids that are associated: us20003j43. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/09/15 / 2015-09-13 02:57:27 / September 13, 2015 @ 2:57 am. Exact location of event, longitude 28.9664 East, latitude 37.1443 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:57:27 / 5:57 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kuyucak, Elmalı, Çine (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Denizli (c. 313 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Fethiye (c. 60 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Muğla (c. 48 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Marmaris (c. 33 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Çine (c. 21 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Ortaca (c. 19 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Dalaman (c. 19 300 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 32 km SSW of Konak, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 28.9664° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.1443° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km SSW of Konak, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-13 02:57:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-13 03:30:48 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 340 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 0.852 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 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 us20003j43 Id of event.
Event Code 20003j43 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003j43, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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