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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Saray in Turkey


Earthquake location 38.5195S, 44.429WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Saray in Turkey. Exact location, longitude 44.429° East, latitude 38.5195° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70007w6f. Unique identifier: us70007w6f. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 03:14:38 / 3:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/02/20 / 2020-02-24 23:44:38 / February 24, 2020 @ 11:44 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from Van (c. 371 700 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Khvoy (c. 175 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Salmās (c. 81 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from (c. 31 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Başkale (c. 14 500 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Özalp (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Van, , Başkale.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 thirteen, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 26 km ESE of Saray, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 44.429° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.5195° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km ESE of Saray, 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 23:44:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-24 23:59:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 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 271 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 1.644 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us70007w6f Id of event.
Event Code 70007w6f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007w6f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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