A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Behram in Turkey. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/02/17 / 2017-02-08 02:16:14 / February 8, 2017 @ 2:16 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:16:14 / 4:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 26.148° East, latitude 39.5415° North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20008idk. Unique identifier: us20008idk.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dikili, Havran, Gökçeada (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Çanakkale (c. 87 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Edremit (c. 40 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Burhaniye (c. 38 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ayvalık (c. 35 200 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Mytilíni (c. 28 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Ezine (c. 15 700 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fourteen 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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