Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Yedisu in Turkey

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Yedisu in Turkey. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 22:40:36 / 10:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 40.7696° East, 39.4057° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000aew8. Unique identifier: us6000aew8. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/06/20 / 2020-06-14 22:40:36 / June 14, 2020 @ 10:40 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Erzurum (c. 420 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Bingöl (c. 80 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Hınıs (c. 35 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Karakoçan (c. 29 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Genç (c. 22 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Varto (c. 18 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Aşkale (c. 15 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Karakoçan, Hınıs, Genç.

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 seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 20 km E of Yedisu, Turkey.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	40.7696° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.4057° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km E of Yedisu, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-06-14 22:40:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-23 00:58:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	312	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	0.646	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us6000aew8	Id of event.
Event Code	6000aew8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000aew8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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