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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Feke in Turkey

Posted by admin on October 27, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.6499S, 35.9856WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Feke in Turkey on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000nni1. Event ids that are associated: us7000nni1. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/10/24 / 2024-10-27 17:07:10 / October 27, 2024 @ 5:07 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 35.9856 East, latitude 37.6499 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 17:07:10 / 5:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Adana (c. 1 249 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Kahramanmaraş (c. 376 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Osmaniye (c. 202 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ceyhan (c. 96 300 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Kozan (c. 88 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Kadirli (c. 70 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Dörtyol (c. 56 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pozantı, Yumurtalık, Karaisalı (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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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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. 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: 19 km SSE of Feke, Turkey.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 35.9856° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.6499° 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 2024-10-27 17:07:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-27 17:27:07 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 369 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 87 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.294 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us7000nni1 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nni1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nni1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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