A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Baklan in Turkey. Id of earthquake: us6000529q. Event ids that are associated: us6000529q. Global time and date of event 08/08/19 / 2019-08-08 11:19:37 / August 8, 2019 @ 11:19 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:19:37 / 1:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 29.6254° East, 37.9272° North, depth 10 km.
Country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Karacasu, Banaz, Atabey. Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Denizli (c. 313 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Isparta (c. 172 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Uşak (c. 152 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Burdur (c. 66 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Sandıklı (c. 43 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Dinar (c. 35 400 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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