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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Karaburun in Turkey


Earthquake location 38.7949S, 26.5172WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Karaburun in Turkey. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.17 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:33:33 / 9:33 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/06/17 / 2017-06-17 19:33:33 / June 17, 2017 @ 7:33 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 26.5172° East, latitude 38.7949° North, depth = 12.17 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20009nb3. Ids that are associated to the event: us20009nb3.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saruhanlı, Ayvacık, Altınoluk. Country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Bergama (c. 57 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Menemen (c. 53 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Urla (c. 45 200 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-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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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 17 km N of Karaburun, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.5172° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7949° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km N of Karaburun, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-17 19:33:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-17 21:19:05 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 1.626 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us20009nb3 Id of event.
Event Code 20009nb3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009nb3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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