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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Foca in Turkey

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Foca in Turkey. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:13:51 / 7:13 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000bvut. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bvut. Exact location of event, longitude 26.7196 East, latitude 38.5966 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/12/17 / 2017-12-25 05:13:51 / December 25, 2017 @ 5:13 am.

Close country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Turgutlu (c. 103 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Kuşadası (c. 63 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bergama (c. 57 200 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Menemen (c. 53 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kuşadası, Selçuk, Bayındır (min 5000 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 twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 8 km SSW of Foca, Turkey.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	26.7196° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.5966° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km SSW of Foca, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-25 05:13:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-25 05:56:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	6	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	328	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	2.353	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	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	us1000bvut	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bvut	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000bvut,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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