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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Akhisar in Turkey

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Akhisar in Turkey. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/02/20 / 2020-02-04 17:55:25 / February 4, 2020 @ 5:55 pm. The temblor was detected at 19:55:25 / 7:55 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us60007pkf. Event ids that are associated: us60007pkf. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 27.881° East, 39.0706° North.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Karabağlar, İzmir, Kiraz (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Event epicenter was 97 km (61 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Balıkesir (c. 238 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Turgutlu (c. 103 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Salihli (c. 88 900 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Akhisar (c. 84 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km NNE of Akhisar, Turkey. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	27.881° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.0706° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km NNE of Akhisar, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-04 17:55:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-04 18:15:50	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	2	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	370	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	0.568	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	40	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	us60007pkf	Id of event.
Event Code	60007pkf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007pkf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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