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Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Kırıkhan in Turkey

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Kırıkhan in Turkey. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/08/24 / 2024-08-20 00:57:42 / August 20, 2024 @ 12:57 am. Exact location of event, longitude 36.4742 East, latitude 36.4913 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000n81t. Unique identifier: us7000n81t. The temblor was detected at 00:57:42 / 12:57 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceyhan, Nurdağı, Bahçe (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Syria (c. 22 198 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Aleppo (c. 1 602 300 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Antakya (c. 210 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Osmaniye (c. 202 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from İskenderun (c. 160 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Idlib (c. 128 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Ceyhan (c. 96 300 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 10 km E of Kırıkhan, Turkey.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	36.4742° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4913° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km E of Kırıkhan, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-20 00:57:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-20 01:12:47	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	211	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	0.78	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	52	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	us7000n81t	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n81t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n81t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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