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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Feke in Turkey


Earthquake location 37.6625S, 36.0303WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Feke in Turkey. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). 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: us6000nn9i. Unique identifier: us6000nn9i. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 36.0303° East, 37.6625° North. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:33:13 / 2:33 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 02:33:13 / August 7, 2024 @ 2:33 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Adana, Develi, Dörtyol (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Adana (c. 1 249 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kahramanmaraş (c. 376 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Osmaniye (c. 202 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Ceyhan (c. 96 300 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Kozan (c. 88 100 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Kadirli (c. 70 200 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Dörtyol (c. 56 500 pop).

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

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 19 km SSE of Feke, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 36.0303° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6625° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 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 02:33:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-28 21:18:04 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 312 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.665 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us6000nn9i Id of event.
Event Code 6000nn9i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nn9i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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