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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Kale in Turkey

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Kale in Turkey. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/02/20 / 2020-02-25 23:03:37 / February 25, 2020 @ 11:03 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 38.7842° East, 38.3128° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 01:03:37 / 1:03 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us600084bs. Event ids that are associated: us600084bs.

Epicenter of the event was 41 km (25 miles) from Malatya (c. 441 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Elazığ (c. 298 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Adıyaman (c. 223 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Siverek (c. 175 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Kâhta (c. 73 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Ergani (c. 52 700 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Kovancılar (c. 23 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kovancılar, Hozat, Tut (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 11 km S of Kale, Turkey.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	38.7842° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.3128° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km S of Kale, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-25 23:03:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-25 23:21:23	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	385	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	0.854	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	59	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us600084bs	Id of event.
Event Code	600084bs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600084bs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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