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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Feke in Turkey


Earthquake location 37.6751S, 35.9782WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Feke in Turkey. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:32:28 / 2:32 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nigk. Id of event: us6000nigk. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 35.9782° East, latitude 37.6751° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 02:32:28 / August 7, 2024 @ 2:32 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 94 km (59 miles) from Adana (c. 1 249 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kahramanmaraş (c. 376 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Osmaniye (c. 202 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ceyhan (c. 96 300 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Kozan (c. 88 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Kadirli (c. 70 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Dörtyol (c. 56 500 pop). Close country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Adana, Karaisalı, Dörtyol (min 5000 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km SSE of Feke, Turkey. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 35.9782° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6751° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km SSE of Feke, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-07 02:32:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-07 02:48:11 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 326 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 62 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.306 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 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 mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000nigk Id of event.
Event Code 6000nigk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nigk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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