A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Datca in Turkey. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 27.6677 East, latitude 36.8951 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us2000a2ql. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000a2ql. Global time and date of event 30/07/17 / 2017-07-30 17:51:19 / July 30, 2017 @ 5:51 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 19:51:19 / 7:51 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sarigerme, Çine, Archángelos. The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Muğla (c. 48 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Milas (c. 43 200 pop), 27 km (16 miles) from Bodrum (c. 39 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Marmaris (c. 33 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Didim (c. 26 000 pop). Close country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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 Datca, Turkey.
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