Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Selimpaşa in Turkey

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Selimpaşa in Turkey. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:38:19 / 9:38 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n15m. Id of event: us6000n15m. Global time and date of event 26/05/24 / 2024-05-26 21:38:19 / May 26, 2024 @ 9:38 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 28.3083 East, latitude 40.8178 North, depth = 15.105 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.105 km (9 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sancaktepe, Maltepe, Umraniye (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from İstanbul (c. 11 174 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Bağcılar (c. 724 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Üsküdar (c. 582 700 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Bahçelievler (c. 576 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Umraniye (c. 573 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 26 km S of Selimpaşa, Turkey.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	28.3083° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.8178° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.105 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26 km S of Selimpaşa, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-26 21:38:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-27 13:51:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	168	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.176	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000n15m	Id of event.
Event Code	6000n15m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000n15m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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