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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Kovancılar in Turkey

Posted by admin on November 8, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 38.5367S, 39.701WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Kovancılar in Turkey on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 39.701° East, 38.5367° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/11/24 / 2024-11-08 14:04:01 / November 8, 2024 @ 2:04 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:04:01 / 2:04 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000nqls. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nqls.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 83 km (51 miles) from Diyarbakır (c. 644 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Elazığ (c. 298 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Siverek (c. 175 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Bingöl (c. 80 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Ergani (c. 52 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Karakoçan (c. 29 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Tunceli (c. 29 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hazro, Siverek, Keban.

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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 24 km SW of Kovancılar, Turkey.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 39.701° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.5367° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km SW of Kovancılar, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-08 14:04:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-08 14:16:09 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 340 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 1.202 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us7000nqls Id of event.
Event Code 7000nqls An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nqls, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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