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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Nurluca in Turkey


Earthquake location 40.9999S, 40.8811WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Nurluca in Turkey. Exact location of event, longitude 40.8811 East, latitude 40.9999 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nry6. Id of event: us7000nry6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/11/24 / 2024-11-15 09:02:01 / November 15, 2024 @ 9:02 am. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:02:01 / 9:02 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Batumi (c. 121 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Rize (c. 92 800 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Ardeşen (c. 68 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Of (c. 32 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Araklı (c. 29 900 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Çayeli (c. 24 600 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Artvin (c. 24 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Batumi, Aydıntepe, Yomra (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Georgia (c. 4 630 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 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: 4 km SSW of Nurluca, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 40.8811° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.9999° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km SSW of Nurluca, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-15 09:02:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-15 13:55:54 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 100 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.024 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us7000nry6 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nry6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nry6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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