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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Sarigerme in Turkey


Earthquake location 36.3793S, 28.6957WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Sarigerme in Turkey on Sunday. 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. Exact location, longitude 28.6957° East, latitude 36.3793° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:18:34 / 6:18 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 03/11/19 / 2019-11-03 04:18:34 / November 3, 2019 @ 4:18 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us700062gu. Ids that are associated to the event: us700062gu.

Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Fethiye (c. 60 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Marmaris (c. 33 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ortaca (c. 19 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Dalaman (c. 19 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Sarigerme (c. 16 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kaş, Ula, Marmaris.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 37 km S of Sarigerme, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 28.6957° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3793° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km S of Sarigerme, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-03 04:18:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-03 04:39:01 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 259 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 0.492 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us700062gu Id of event.
Event Code 700062gu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700062gu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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