Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Erdek in Turkey

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Erdek in Turkey on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 11.78 km, 27.8564° East, 40.5104° North. The temblor was reported at 22:12:02 / 10:12 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/12/17 / 2017-12-31 20:12:02 / December 31, 2017 @ 8:12 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.78 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000byld. Unique identifier: us1000byld.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Esenyurt (c. 211 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Çorlu (c. 202 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Büyükçekmece (c. 163 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Beylikdüzü (c. 122 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Tekirdağ (c. 122 300 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Bandırma (c. 107 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Malkara, Esenyurt, Mudanya (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 13 km NNE of Erdek, Turkey.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	27.8564° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.5104° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km NNE of Erdek, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-31 20:12:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-02 23:00:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	285	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	0.869	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96	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	us1000byld	Id of event.
Event Code	1000byld	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000byld,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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