A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Menemen in Turkey. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20.78 km (13 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 27.0836 East, latitude 38.6094 North, depth = 20.78 km. Id of earthquake: us2000j8yn. Event ids that are associated: us2000j8yn. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/01/19 / 2019-01-25 20:20:34 / January 25, 2019 @ 8:20 pm. The temblor was picked up at 22:20:34 / 10:20 pm (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Turgutlu (c. 103 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Akhisar (c. 84 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Hypaepa (c. 67 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hypaepa, Chíos, Vrontádos. Close country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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. 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 1 km E of Menemen, Turkey.
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