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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Nurhak in Turkey

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Nurhak in Turkey. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000nrxw. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nrxw. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 37.6427° East, 37.9543° North. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:46:20 / 7:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/11/24 / 2024-11-15 07:46:20 / November 15, 2024 @ 7:46 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) from Gaziantep (c. 1 066 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Malatya (c. 441 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Kahramanmaraş (c. 376 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Adıyaman (c. 223 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Elbistan (c. 80 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Kâhta (c. 73 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Besni (c. 41 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bozova, Gaziantep, Göksun (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km E of Nurhak, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	37.6427° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.9543° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km E of Nurhak, 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 07:46:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-15 08:12:20	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	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	51	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.629	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	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	us7000nrxw	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nrxw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nrxw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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