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


Earthquake location 39.3674S, 40.9178WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Karliova in Turkey. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:38:06 / 8:38 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70008ulz. Unique identifier: us70008ulz. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/04/20 / 2020-04-12 06:38:06 / April 12, 2020 @ 6:38 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 40.9178 East, latitude 39.3674 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Karakoçan, Muş, Genç (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Erzurum (c. 420 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Muş (c. 82 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Bingöl (c. 80 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Hınıs (c. 35 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Karakoçan (c. 29 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Genç (c. 22 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km NW of Karliova, Turkey. This data 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 40.9178° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.3674° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NW of Karliova, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-12 06:38:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-12 07:23:21 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 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 0.726 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us70008ulz Id of event.
Event Code 70008ulz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008ulz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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