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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Kumru in Turkey

Posted by admin on April 9, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.9588S, 37.2435WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Kumru in Turkey. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/04/20 / 2020-04-09 21:23:44 / April 9, 2020 @ 9:23 pm. The temblor was detected at 23:23:44 / 11:23 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 37.2435° East, 40.9588° North, depth 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008ssz. Id of event: us70008ssz.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Samsun (c. 394 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ordu (c. 116 800 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Fatsa (c. 82 200 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Unieh (c. 77 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Erbaa (c. 52 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Çarşamba (c. 50 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Koyulhisar, Samsun, Bulancak.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km N of Kumru, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 37.2435° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.9588° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km N of Kumru, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-09 21:23:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-09 21:51:21 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 234 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 0.861 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us70008ssz Id of event.
Event Code 70008ssz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008ssz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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