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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Horasan in Turkey

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Horasan in Turkey on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/03/17 / 2017-03-24 08:54:24 / March 24, 2017 @ 8:54 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us20008u8g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008u8g. The temblor was picked up at 10:54:24 / 10:54 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.63 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 42.1677° East, 40.0371° North, depth 1.63 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Merdinik, Ilıca, Hınıs (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Erzurum (c. 420 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Ağrı (c. 92 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Hınıs (c. 35 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Kağızman (c. 25 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Pasinler (c. 24 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Sarıkamış (c. 23 700 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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.

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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: 1 km SSW of Horasan, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	42.1677° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.0371° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km SSW of Horasan, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-03-24 08:54:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-24 09:22:47	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	271	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	0.913	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	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	us20008u8g	Id of event.
Event Code	20008u8g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008u8g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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