A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Sinop in Turkey. Global time and date of event 22/07/16 / 2016-07-22 21:40:10 / July 22, 2016 @ 9:40 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 35.1098 East, latitude 42.3276 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:40:10 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20006gyl. Unique identifier: us20006gyl.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Event epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Sinop (c. 34 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ayancık (c. 11 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Gerze (c. 11 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Türkeli (c. 8 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Yakakent (c. 5 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yakakent, Türkeli, Ayancık (min 5000 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 33 km N of Sinop, Turkey.
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