Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Urla in Turkey

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Urla in Turkey on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 26.6668° East, 38.4031° North, depth 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000aptd. Unique identifier: us7000aptd. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/07/20 / 2020-07-16 18:09:26 / July 16, 2020 @ 6:09 pm. The temblor was reported at 18:09:26 / 6:09 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 41 km (26 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Turgutlu (c. 103 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kuşadası (c. 63 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Bergama (c. 57 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Menemen (c. 53 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Davutlar, Bergama, Turgutlu (min 5000 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 two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km NW of Urla, Turkey.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	26.6668° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.4031° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km NW of Urla, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-07-16 18:09:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-24 18:32:54	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	1.487	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	25	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	us7000aptd	Id of event.
Event Code	7000aptd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000aptd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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