A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Saray in Turkey. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/11/19 / 2019-11-19 00:12:01 / November 19, 2019 @ 12:12 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 44.4386° East, 38.7514° North. Id of earthquake: us700069pw. Event ids that are associated: us700069pw. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:42:01 / 3:42 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Başkale, Salmās, (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Khvoy (c. 175 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Salmās (c. 81 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from (c. 31 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Başkale (c. 14 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Özalp (c. 8 200 pop).
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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 25 km ENE of Saray, Turkey.
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