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Strong earthquake, 6.7 mag strikes near Doganyol in Turkey

Posted by admin on January 24, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.3303S, 39.0843WA earthquake magnitude 6.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Doganyol in Turkey. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 39.0843 East, latitude 38.3303 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:55:14 / 7:55 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/01/20 / 2020-01-24 17:55:14 / January 24, 2020 @ 5:55 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us60007ewc. Unique identifier: us60007ewc.

Event epicenter was 109 km (68 miles) from Diyarbakır (c. 644 800 pop), 132 km (82 miles) from Şanlıurfa (c. 449 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Malatya (c. 441 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Elazığ (c. 298 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Adıyaman (c. 223 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Siverek (c. 175 300 pop), 136 km (84 miles) from Viranşehir (c. 154 200 pop), 137 km (85 miles) from Bingöl (c. 80 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Kâhta (c. 73 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kuluncak, Bingöl, Genç. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km ENE of Doganyol, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 39.0843° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3303° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km ENE 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 17:55:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-24 18:15:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4 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 691 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 0.96 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60007ewc Id of event.
Event Code 60007ewc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007ewc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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