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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Sivrice in Turkey


Earthquake location 38.5045S, 39.205WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Sivrice in Turkey. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 39.205 East, latitude 38.5045 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 24/01/20 / 2020-01-24 19:00:32 / January 24, 2020 @ 7:00 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 21:00:32 / 9:00 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60007pju. Unique identifier: us60007pju.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Malatya (c. 441 800 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Elazığ (c. 298 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Siverek (c. 175 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ergani (c. 52 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Karakoçan (c. 29 700 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Tunceli (c. 29 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yazıhan, Karakoçan, Yeşilyurt (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km NW of Sivrice, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 39.205° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.5045° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NW of Sivrice, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-24 19:00:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-21 19:24:24 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 284 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 0.898 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us60007pju Id of event.
Event Code 60007pju An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007pju, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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