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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Antalya in Turkey


Earthquake location 37.044S, 30.4969WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Antalya in Turkey on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/09/18 / 2018-09-28 00:26:30 / September 28, 2018 @ 12:26 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 30.4969 East, latitude 37.044 North, depth = 106.17 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 106.17 km (66 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h3jv. Id of event: us1000h3jv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 02:26:30 / 2:26 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Finike, Manavgat, Gölhisar (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Antalya (c. 758 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Isparta (c. 172 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Manavgat (c. 99 300 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Belek (c. 73 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Burdur (c. 66 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Serik (c. 36 900 pop).

Every 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 two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km NW of Antalya, Turkey. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 30.4969° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.044° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 106.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NW of Antalya, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-28 00:26:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-28 00:42:23 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 246 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 0.556 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 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 us1000h3jv Id of event.
Event Code 1000h3jv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h3jv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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