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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Cungus in Turkey

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Cungus in Turkey. Exact location of earthquake, 39.3238° East, 38.3104° North, depth 1.65 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.65 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:40:03 / 10:40 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us60007fkb. Event ids that are associated: us60007fkb. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/01/20 / 2020-01-25 08:40:03 / January 25, 2020 @ 8:40 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Karakoçan, Hani, Yeşilyurt (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Diyarbakır (c. 644 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Malatya (c. 441 800 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Elazığ (c. 298 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Siverek (c. 175 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Kâhta (c. 73 100 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Ergani (c. 52 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fifteen 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 11 km NNE of Cungus, Turkey.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	39.3238° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.3104° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.65 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km NNE of Cungus, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-25 08:40:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-25 08:53:06	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	1.099	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	106	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	us60007fkb	Id of event.
Event Code	60007fkb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007fkb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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