Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Kale in Turkey

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Kale in Turkey. Exact location of event, longitude 28.753 East, latitude 37.2136 North, depth = 7.739 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mcrk. Unique identifier: us7000mcrk. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.739 km (5 miles). The temblor was picked up at 20:43:16 / 8:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/04/24 / 2024-04-17 20:43:16 / April 17, 2024 @ 8:43 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Buldan, Sultanhisar, Tefenni (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Denizli (c. 313 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Nazilli (c. 119 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Fethiye (c. 60 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Muğla (c. 48 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Milas (c. 43 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Marmaris (c. 33 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 26 km SSW of Kale, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	28.753° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.2136° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.739 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26 km SSW of Kale, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-04-17 20:43:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-04-28 15:56:45	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	271	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.826	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	62	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	us7000mcrk	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mcrk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mcrk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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