Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Yedisu in Turkey

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Yedisu in Turkey. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/02/21 / 2021-02-17 10:02:32 / February 17, 2021 @ 10:02 am. The temblor was picked up at 10:02:32 / 10:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 40.3624° East, 39.4711° North, depth 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000dkem. Id of event: us6000dkem. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 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).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Erzurum, Bayburt, Ilıca. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Erzurum (c. 420 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Erzincan (c. 114 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Bingöl (c. 80 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Cimin (c. 39 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Bayburt (c. 31 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Karakoçan (c. 29 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km WNW of Yedisu, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	40.3624° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.4711° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 km WNW 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	2021-02-17 10:02:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-03-13 09:24:59	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	284	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	0.555	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	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	us6000dkem	Id of event.
Event Code	6000dkem	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000dkem,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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