Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Otlukbeli in Turkey

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Otlukbeli in Turkey on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mu56. Unique identifier: us6000mu56. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 40.2297 East, latitude 40.0111 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 22:30:39 / 10:30 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/04/24 / 2024-04-26 22:30:39 / April 26, 2024 @ 10:30 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Erzurum (c. 420 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Erzincan (c. 114 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Cimin (c. 39 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Gumushkhane (c. 32 300 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Bayburt (c. 31 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kelkit (c. 23 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Erzurum, Köprübaşı, Dernekpazarı. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km ENE of Otlukbeli, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	40.2297° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.0111° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km ENE of Otlukbeli, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-26 22:30:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-04 03:19:19	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	259	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.206	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	41	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	us6000mu56	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mu56	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mu56,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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