A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Sivrice in Turkey. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 21:49:40 / 9:49 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/01/20 / 2020-01-24 19:49:40 / January 24, 2020 @ 7:49 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us60007f0c. Unique identifier: us60007f0c. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 39.1879° East, latitude 38.3698° North, depth = 10 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yazıhan, Çelikhan, Hilvan. Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Malatya (c. 441 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Elazığ (c. 298 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Siverek (c. 175 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Kâhta (c. 73 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Ergani (c. 52 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Tunceli (c. 29 100 pop). Close country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km SW of Sivrice, Turkey.
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