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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Golhisar in Turkey

Posted by admin on March 20, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.2705S, 29.5733WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Golhisar in Turkey on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000jjd8. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000jjd8. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 19:42:56 / 7:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 29.5733° East, 37.2705° North, depth 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/03/19 / 2019-03-20 17:42:56 / March 20, 2019 @ 5:42 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Denizli (c. 313 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Burdur (c. 66 200 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Fethiye (c. 60 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Bucak (c. 29 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Korkuteli (c. 20 500 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Ortaca (c. 19 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bucak, Sarayköy, Dalaman. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 nine 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km NNE of Golhisar, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 29.5733° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2705° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NNE of Golhisar, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-20 17:42:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-20 21:58:14 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 284 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 0.586 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us1000jjd8 Id of event.
Event Code 1000jjd8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jjd8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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