A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Kale in Turkey on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 12:14:59 / 12:14 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us60007flw. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007flw. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 38.78 East, latitude 38.2185 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 25/01/20 / 2020-01-25 10:14:59 / January 25, 2020 @ 10:14 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arapgir, Tut, Pertek. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Malatya (c. 441 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Elazığ (c. 298 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Adıyaman (c. 223 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Siverek (c. 175 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Kâhta (c. 73 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Ergani (c. 52 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Çermik (c. 21 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 22 km S of Kale, Turkey.
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