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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Doganyol in Turkey

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Doganyol in Turkey. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/01/20 / 2020-01-24 18:43:24 / January 24, 2020 @ 6:43 pm. The temblor was reported at 20:43:24 / 8:43 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us60007exz. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007exz. Exact location of earthquake, 39.0152° East, 38.3485° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dicle, Adıyaman, Akçadağ. Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Malatya (c. 441 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Elazığ (c. 298 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Adıyaman (c. 223 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Siverek (c. 175 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kâhta (c. 73 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ergani (c. 52 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km NNW of Doganyol, Turkey. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	39.0152° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.3485° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km NNW of Doganyol, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-24 18:43:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-24 23:25:29	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	284	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	0.913	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	112	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	us60007exz	Id of event.
Event Code	60007exz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007exz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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