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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Elbistan in Turkey

Posted by admin on March 28, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.2285S, 37.1349WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Elbistan in Turkey. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/03/17 / 2017-03-28 21:53:31 / March 28, 2017 @ 9:53 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 37.1349 East, latitude 38.2285 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 23:53:31 / 11:53 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us20008vf8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008vf8.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Besni, Kuluncak, Pınarbaşı (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Kahramanmaraş (c. 376 000 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Elbistan (c. 80 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Besni (c. 41 900 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Afşin (c. 39 600 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Göksun (c. 34 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Gölbaşı (c. 28 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

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. Each 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km WNW of Elbistan, Turkey. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 37.1349° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.2285° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km WNW of Elbistan, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-28 21:53:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-28 22:16:54 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 246 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 1.056 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us20008vf8 Id of event.
Event Code 20008vf8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008vf8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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