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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Ozalp in Turkey


Earthquake location 38.5375S, 43.8134WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Ozalp in Turkey. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007bs5. Unique identifier: us10007bs5. Exact location of earthquake, 43.8134° East, 38.5375° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was detected at 14:14:40 / 2:14 pm (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). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/11/16 / 2016-11-23 12:14:40 / November 23, 2016 @ 12:14 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salmās, Erciş, Gevaş (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from Van (c. 371 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Erciş (c. 91 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Salmās (c. 81 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Başkale (c. 14 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Gevaş (c. 11 900 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Özalp (c. 8 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Edremit (c. 7 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km SW of Ozalp, Turkey. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 43.8134° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.5375° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km SW of Ozalp, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-23 12:14:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-23 12:35:28 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 312 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 0.634 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us10007bs5 Id of event.
Event Code 10007bs5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007bs5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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