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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Akhisar in Turkey


Earthquake location 38.9237S, 27.6505WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.6505° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.9237° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km W of Akhisar, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-15 02:51:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-15 03:34:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 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 259 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 0.831 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us20007eaf Id of event.
Event Code 20007eaf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007eaf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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