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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Van in Turkey

Posted by admin on April 8, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.5731S, 43.4558WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Van in Turkey. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:31:01 / 11:31 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008fxi. Id of event: us10008fxi. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/04/17 / 2017-04-08 21:31:01 / April 8, 2017 @ 9:31 pm. Exact location, longitude 43.4558° East, latitude 38.5731° North, depth = 22.21 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.21 km (14 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Patnos, Ahlat, Başkale (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 11 km (7 miles) from Van (c. 371 700 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Erciş (c. 91 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Patnos (c. 87 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ahlat (c. 64 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Adilcevaz (c. 52 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Başkale (c. 14 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km NE of Van, Turkey.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 43.4558° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.5731° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NE of Van, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-08 21:31:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-08 22:05:55 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 259 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 0.406 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us10008fxi Id of event.
Event Code 10008fxi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008fxi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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