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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Akhisar in Turkey

Posted by admin on February 24, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.0628S, 27.9095WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Akhisar in Turkey. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.32 km (6 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:43:34 / 4:43 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70007vj1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007vj1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 27.9095 East, latitude 39.0628 North, depth = 10.32 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/02/20 / 2020-02-24 02:43:34 / February 24, 2020 @ 2:43 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Susurluk, Bayındır, Edremit (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Balıkesir (c. 238 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Turgutlu (c. 103 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Salihli (c. 88 900 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Akhisar (c. 84 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Hypaepa (c. 67 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Soma (c. 65 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 17 km NNE of Akhisar, Turkey.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.9095° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.0628° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.32 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 2020-02-24 02:43:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-24 03:17:55 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 2.2 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 326 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 0.576 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us70007vj1 Id of event.
Event Code 70007vj1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007vj1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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