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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Narman in Turkey


Earthquake location 40.3223S, 42.1121WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Narman in Turkey. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 42.1121 East, latitude 40.3223 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 13:20:09 / 1:20 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 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). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006s5q. Unique identifier: us70006s5q. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/12/19 / 2019-12-29 11:20:09 / December 29, 2019 @ 11:20 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Erzurum (c. 420 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kars (c. 77 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kağızman (c. 25 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Pasinler (c. 24 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Sarıkamış (c. 23 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Oltu (c. 23 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tekman, Ardanuç, Kağızman.

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 20 km E of Narman, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 42.1121° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3223° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km E of Narman, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-29 11:20:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-29 12:33:00 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 298 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 0.804 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us70006s5q Id of event.
Event Code 70006s5q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006s5q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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