Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Doğanyol in Turkey

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Doğanyol in Turkey on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000nqwi. Event ids that are associated: us7000nqwi. Global time and date of event 09/11/24 / 2024-11-09 17:11:26 / November 9, 2024 @ 5:11 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 17:11:26 / 5:11 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 38.859 East, latitude 38.2678 North, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arapgir, Doğanşehir, Samsat. The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Malatya (c. 441 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Elazığ (c. 298 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Adıyaman (c. 223 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Siverek (c. 175 300 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Kâhta (c. 73 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Ergani (c. 52 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

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 three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixteen 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. 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: 15 km WSW of Doğanyol, Turkey.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	38.859° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.2678° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 km WSW of Doğanyol, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-09 17:11:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-05 14:42:09	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	259	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.705	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	us7000nqwi	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nqwi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nqwi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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