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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Orta in Turkey


Earthquake location 40.532S, 32.9798WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Orta in Turkey. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/02/19 / 2019-02-12 17:23:24 / February 12, 2019 @ 5:23 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jgqq. Id of event: us2000jgqq. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.27 km (2 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 32.9798° East, 40.532° North, depth 3.27 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:23:24 / 7:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Ankara (c. 3 517 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Çankaya (c. 792 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Batikent (c. 300 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Kırıkkale (c. 211 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Karabük (c. 97 500 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Khanjarah (c. 71 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kırıkkale, Araç, Yeniçağa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 15 km SW of Orta, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 32.9798° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.532° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SW 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 17:23:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-12 18:03:22 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 271 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 0.678 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us2000jgqq Id of event.
Event Code 2000jgqq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jgqq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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