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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Orta in Turkey


Earthquake location 40.6824S, 33.0222WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Orta in Turkey on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005g9r. Unique identifier: us70005g9r. Global time and date of event 14/09/19 / 2019-09-14 06:03:13 / September 14, 2019 @ 6:03 am UTC/GMT. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:03:13 / 8:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 33.0222 East, latitude 40.6824 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kastamonu, Daday, Ayaş (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Event epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Ankara (c. 3 517 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Çankaya (c. 792 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Batikent (c. 300 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Karabük (c. 97 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Khanjarah (c. 71 400 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Kastamonu (c. 70 400 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Çubuk (c. 62 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km NW of Orta, Turkey. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 33.0222° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.6824° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km NW of Orta, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-14 06:03:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-14 06:24:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 340 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 0.643 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us70005g9r Id of event.
Event Code 70005g9r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005g9r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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