A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Van in Turkey. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/10/16 / 2016-10-18 19:22:49 / October 18, 2016 @ 7:22 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 22:22:49 / 10:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 43.4668° East, 38.6375° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007f5q. Id of event: us20007f5q.
Event epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Van (c. 371 700 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Erciş (c. 91 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Patnos (c. 87 500 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Ahlat (c. 64 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Adilcevaz (c. 52 800 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Başkale (c. 14 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ahlat, Patnos, Başkale (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 17 km NNE of Van, Turkey.
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