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Strong earthquake, 6 mag strikes near Doğanyol in Turkey

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A earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Doğanyol in Turkey. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 38.8261° East, 38.3086° North. The temblor was detected at 07:46:32 / 7:46 am (local time epicenter). 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: us6000nyzk. Unique identifier: us6000nyzk. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/10/24 / 2024-10-16 07:46:32 / October 16, 2024 @ 7:46 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gölbaşı, Kuluncak, Darende. Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Malatya (c. 441 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Elazığ (c. 298 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Adıyaman (c. 223 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Siverek (c. 175 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Kâhta (c. 73 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ergani (c. 52 700 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Besni (c. 41 900 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Tunceli (c. 29 100 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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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: 18 km W of Doğanyol, Turkey.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	38.8261° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.3086° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km W of Doğanyol, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-16 07:46:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-16 08:05:57	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	7.932	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	yellow	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	650	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	118	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.383	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000nyzk	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nyzk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nyzk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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