A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Atkaracalar in Turkey. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 21:03:34 / 9:03 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/09/19 / 2019-09-14 19:03:34 / September 14, 2019 @ 7:03 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 33.0369 East, latitude 40.7309 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005gft. Unique identifier: us70005gft.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Çankaya, Elmadağ, Ankara (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from Ankara (c. 3 517 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Çankaya (c. 792 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Batikent (c. 300 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Karabük (c. 97 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Khanjarah (c. 71 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Çubuk (c. 62 600 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 9 km SSW of Atkaracalar, Turkey.
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