A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Urla in Turkey. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 26.7437 East, latitude 38.4368 North, depth = 17 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:15:31 / 8:15 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/01/16 / 2016-01-31 06:15:31 / January 31, 2016 @ 6:15 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us20004w7y. Unique identifier: us20004w7y.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bergama, Turgutlu, Bayındır. The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Turgutlu (c. 103 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kuşadası (c. 63 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Bergama (c. 57 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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