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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Kozan in Turkey


Earthquake location 37.6165S, 35.8024WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Kozan in Turkey. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/11/19 / 2019-11-24 13:33:22 / November 24, 2019 @ 1:33 pm. The temblor was reported at 15:33:22 / 3:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 35.8024° East, 37.6165° North, depth 9.21 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.21 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). Event id: us70006cg8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006cg8.

Close country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nurdağı, Yumurtalık, Tomarza. The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Adana (c. 1 249 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Osmaniye (c. 202 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ceyhan (c. 96 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Kozan (c. 88 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Kadirli (c. 70 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Dörtyol (c. 56 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Develi (c. 35 900 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 17 km N of Kozan, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 35.8024° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6165° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km N of Kozan, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-24 13:33:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-24 14:48:04 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 312 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 1.205 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us70006cg8 Id of event.
Event Code 70006cg8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006cg8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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