A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Sivrice in Turkey on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 02:03:51 / 2:03 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 39.2739 East, latitude 38.3727 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007luu. Id of event: us60007luu. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/02/20 / 2020-02-01 00:03:51 / February 1, 2020 @ 12:03 am.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Karakoçan, Hilvan, Yeşilyurt (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 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), 87 km (54 miles) from Kâhta (c. 73 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Ergani (c. 52 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Karakoçan (c. 29 700 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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