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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Ercis in Turkey

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Ercis in Turkey. Id of earthquake: us1000erk2. Event ids that are associated: us1000erk2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 43.6393 East, latitude 38.8548 North, depth = 29.5 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:42:25 / 5:42 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/06/18 / 2018-06-14 15:42:25 / June 14, 2018 @ 3:42 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.5 km (18 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taşlıçay, Doğubayazıt, Patnos. Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from Van (c. 371 700 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Erciş (c. 91 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Patnos (c. 87 500 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Doğubayazıt (c. 70 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Adilcevaz (c. 52 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Diyadin (c. 18 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 31 km SE of Ercis, Turkey.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	43.6393° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.8548° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km SE of Ercis, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-06-14 15:42:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-14 19:45:47	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	284	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	1.293	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	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	us1000erk2	Id of event.
Event Code	1000erk2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000erk2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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