Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 32 km WSW of Elmali, Turkey

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Elmali in Turkey. Event id: us10004gki. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004gki. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:00:45 / 6:00 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 29.57 East, latitude 36.6484 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/16 / 2016-01-23 04:00:45 / January 23, 2016 @ 4:00 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nikfer, Kemer, Acıpayam. Close country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (25 miles) from Fethiye (c. 60 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Beykonak (c. 30 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Korkuteli (c. 20 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Tekirova (c. 20 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ortaca (c. 19 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Dalaman (c. 19 300 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 one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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 WSW of Elmali, Turkey.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	29.57° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6484° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km WSW of Elmali, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-23 04:00:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-17 06:19:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	271	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	0.289	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	76	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	us10004gki	Id of event.
Event Code	10004gki	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004gki,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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