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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 10 km NW of Narman, Turkey


Earthquake location 40.4007S, 41.7754WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 41.7754° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.4007° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NW of Narman, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-15 00:15:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-15 00:34:49 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 298 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 1.027 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us70004k9a Id of event.
Event Code 70004k9a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004k9a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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