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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Behram in Turkey


Earthquake location 39.5215S, 26.1487WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Behram in Turkey on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude 26.1487 East, latitude 39.5215 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 00:53:29 / 12:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/02/17 / 2017-02-07 22:53:29 / February 7, 2017 @ 10:53 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us20008icm. Event ids that are associated: us20008icm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Çanakkale (c. 87 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Edremit (c. 40 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Burhaniye (c. 38 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Ayvalık (c. 35 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mytilíni (c. 28 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ezine (c. 15 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Havran, Dikili, Gökçeada.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

Questions or comments?

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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 16 km W of Behram, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.1487° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.5215° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km W of Behram, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-07 22:53:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-08 00:36:55 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 284 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 1.343 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 42 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 us20008icm Id of event.
Event Code 20008icm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008icm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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