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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Toprakkale in Turkey

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Toprakkale in Turkey. Exact location of earthquake, 36.1017° East, 37.0793° North, depth 5.37 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20008mfu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008mfu. The temblor was picked up at 23:06:05 / 11:06 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5.37 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/02/17 / 2017-02-25 21:06:05 / February 25, 2017 @ 9:06 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Adana (c. 1 249 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kahramanmaraş (c. 376 000 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Osmaniye (c. 202 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from İskenderun (c. 160 000 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Ceyhan (c. 96 300 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Kozan (c. 88 100 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Kadirli (c. 70 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Karaisalı, Kastal, ‘Afrīn.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km WNW of Toprakkale, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	36.1017° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.0793° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km WNW of Toprakkale, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-02-25 21:06:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-27 19:29:44	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	0.89	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	us20008mfu	Id of event.
Event Code	20008mfu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008mfu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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