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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near OEluedeniz in Turkey

Posted by admin on October 30, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.29S, 28.8464WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from OEluedeniz in Turkey. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/10/18 / 2018-10-30 00:25:44 / October 30, 2018 @ 12:25 am. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:25:44 / 2:25 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hitq. Unique identifier: us1000hitq. Exact location of event, longitude 28.8464 East, latitude 36.29 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Fethiye (c. 60 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Marmaris (c. 33 700 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Ortaca (c. 19 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Dalaman (c. 19 300 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Sarigerme (c. 16 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Triánta (c. 11 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Marmaris, Kaş, Archángelos. Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighteen 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 40 km SW of OEluedeniz, Turkey.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 28.8464° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.29° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km SW of OEluedeniz, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-30 00:25:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-30 00:50:25 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 3.4 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 312 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 0.97 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us1000hitq Id of event.
Event Code 1000hitq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hitq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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