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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Ceyhan in Turkey

Posted by admin on September 21, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.0573S, 35.9033WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Ceyhan in Turkey. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:30:06 / 9:30 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000bq5r. Unique identifier: us7000bq5r. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/09/20 / 2020-09-19 09:30:06 / September 19, 2020 @ 9:30 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 35.9033 East, latitude 37.0573 North, depth = 10.7 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.7 km (7 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tarsus, Serinyol, Karaisalı (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Adana (c. 1 249 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Tarsus (c. 256 500 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Osmaniye (c. 202 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from İskenderun (c. 160 000 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Ceyhan (c. 96 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Kozan (c. 88 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km ENE of Ceyhan, Turkey. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 35.9033° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0573° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km ENE of Ceyhan, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-19 09:30:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-21 03:32:44 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 298 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 1.05 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us7000bq5r Id of event.
Event Code 7000bq5r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bq5r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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