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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Can in Turkey

Posted by admin on May 3, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.0081S, 26.8847WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Can in Turkey on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 04:04:35 / 4:04 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dwe0. Id of event: us1000dwe0. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 26.8847° East, latitude 40.0081° North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 03/05/18 / 2018-05-03 02:04:35 / May 3, 2018 @ 2:04 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Manyas, Erdek, Gökçeada. Nearby country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (27 miles) from Çanakkale (c. 87 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Edremit (c. 40 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Gönen (c. 40 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Burhaniye (c. 38 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Ayvalık (c. 35 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Biga (c. 30 900 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km W of Can, Turkey. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.8847° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.0081° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km W of Can, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-03 02:04:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-03 02:16:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 1.091 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us1000dwe0 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dwe0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dwe0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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