A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from `Ayn al Bayda in Syria. Exact location of event, longitude 35.5428 East, latitude 35.791 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/04/20 / 2020-04-14 22:37:56 / April 14, 2020 @ 10:37 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008wcj. Unique identifier: us70008wcj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:37:56 / 12:37 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salqīn, Karataş, Serinyol (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) from Latakia (c. 340 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Antakya (c. 210 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Jablah (c. 65 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Jisr ash Shughūr (c. 39 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bāniyās (c. 39 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Salqīn (c. 31 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Syria (c. 22 198 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.
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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: 34 km WNW of `Ayn al Bayda, Syria.
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