A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Narman in Turkey on Monday. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:15:27 / 2:15 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/07/19 / 2019-07-15 00:15:27 / July 15, 2019 @ 12:15 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 41.7754° East, 40.4007° North. 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). Id of earthquake: us70004k9a. Event ids that are associated: us70004k9a.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tekman, Artvin, Pazaryolu. The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Erzurum (c. 420 700 pop), 47 km (30 miles) from Pasinler (c. 24 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Artvin (c. 24 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Sarıkamış (c. 23 700 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Oltu (c. 23 500 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Horasan (c. 17 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 has struck near.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 10 km NW of Narman, Turkey.
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