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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Milas in Turkey


Earthquake location 37.102S, 27.8426WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Milas in Turkey on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 27.8426° East, 37.102° North. Global time and date of event 13/08/17 / 2017-08-13 17:09:04 / August 13, 2017 @ 5:09 pm UTC/GMT. 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 19:09:04 / 7:09 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us2000a92w. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000a92w.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Faliraki, Sarigerme, Germencik (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Aydın (c. 163 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Söke (c. 68 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Muğla (c. 48 200 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Milas (c. 43 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Bodrum (c. 39 300 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 24 km SSE of Milas, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.8426° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.102° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SSE of Milas, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-13 17:09:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-01 14:55:46 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 0.914 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us2000a92w Id of event.
Event Code 2000a92w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a92w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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