A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Akhisar in Turkey. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/10/16 / 2016-10-15 02:51:06 / October 15, 2016 @ 2:51 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us20007eaf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007eaf. Exact location of event, longitude 27.6505 East, latitude 38.9237 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 05:51:06 / 5:51 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kiraz, Torbalı, Demirci (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Balıkesir (c. 238 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Turgutlu (c. 103 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Salihli (c. 88 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 16 km W of Akhisar, Turkey.
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