Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Sincik in Turkey

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Sincik in Turkey. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 38.6038° East, 38.127° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nplv. Unique identifier: us7000nplv. The temblor was reported at 22:58:32 / 10:58 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/11/24 / 2024-11-02 22:58:32 / November 2, 2024 @ 10:58 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bozova, Besni, Elazığ. Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Malatya (c. 441 800 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Elazığ (c. 298 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Adıyaman (c. 223 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Siverek (c. 175 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Kâhta (c. 73 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Besni (c. 41 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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 N of Sincik, Turkey.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	38.6038° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.127° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km N of Sincik, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-02 22:58:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-02 23:27:20	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	234	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.987	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	74	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	us7000nplv	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nplv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nplv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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