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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Sivrice in Turkey

Posted by admin on May 22, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.3585S, 39.2847WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Sivrice in Turkey. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/05/24 / 2024-05-02 20:57:29 / May 2, 2024 @ 8:57 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 39.2847 East, latitude 38.3585 North, depth = 9.147 km. Event id: us6000mvup. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mvup. The temblor was detected at 20:57:29 / 8:57 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.147 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tunceli, Kâhta, Malatya (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Malatya (c. 441 800 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Elazığ (c. 298 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Siverek (c. 175 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Kâhta (c. 73 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Ergani (c. 52 700 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Tunceli (c. 29 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km SSW of Sivrice, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 39.2847° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.3585° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.147 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km SSW of Sivrice, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-02 20:57:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-10 18:30:51 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 234 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.025 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000mvup Id of event.
Event Code 6000mvup An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mvup, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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