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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 16 km NW of Pazarcık, Turkey

Posted by admin on October 23, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.5775S, 37.1532WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Pazarcık in Turkey. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/10/24 / 2024-10-19 11:41:10 / October 19, 2024 @ 11:41 am UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:41:10 / 11:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 37.1532° East, latitude 37.5775° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us6000nzqk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nzqk. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kadirli, Birecik, Kilis. Nearby country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Gaziantep (c. 1 066 000 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Kahramanmaraş (c. 376 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Nizip (c. 82 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Kilis (c. 82 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Elbistan (c. 80 500 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Kadirli (c. 70 200 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Birecik (c. 44 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 16 km NW of Pazarcık, Turkey.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 37.1532° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5775° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km NW of Pazarcık, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-19 11:41:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-23 05:14:20 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.213 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us6000nzqk Id of event.
Event Code 6000nzqk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nzqk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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