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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 14 km WSW of Orta, Turkey


Earthquake location 40.5766S, 32.949WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Orta in Turkey. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000jgqe. Event ids that are associated: us2000jgqe. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/02/19 / 2019-02-12 17:14:30 / February 12, 2019 @ 5:14 pm. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:14:30 / 7:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 32.949 East, latitude 40.5766 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Beypazarı, Kırıkkale, Ayaş (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Ankara (c. 3 517 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Çankaya (c. 792 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Batikent (c. 300 000 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Kırıkkale (c. 211 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Karabük (c. 97 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Khanjarah (c. 71 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Çubuk (c. 62 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km WSW of Orta, Turkey. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 32.949° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.5766° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km WSW of Orta, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-12 17:14:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-12 17:34:26 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 354 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 0.717 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 16 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000jgqe Id of event.
Event Code 2000jgqe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jgqe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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