A 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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