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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Datca in Turkey

Posted by admin on May 1, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.8178S, 27.5159WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Datca in Turkey on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude 27.5159 East, latitude 36.8178 North, depth = 12.39 km. Event id: us1000dv5x. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dv5x. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/05/18 / 2018-05-01 04:03:50 / May 1, 2018 @ 4:03 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 06:03:50 / 6:03 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.39 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Muğla (c. 48 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Milas (c. 43 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Bodrum (c. 39 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Marmaris (c. 33 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Didim (c. 26 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Muğla, Ula, Archángelos (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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 WNW of Datca, Turkey.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.5159° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8178° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km WNW of Datca, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-01 04:03:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-01 04:48:58 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 2.2 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 272 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 0.775 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 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 us1000dv5x Id of event.
Event Code 1000dv5x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dv5x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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