Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 16 km ESE of Alacati, Turkey

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Alacati in Turkey. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19.4 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:03:47 / 4:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 26.5635 East, latitude 38.2475 North, depth = 19.4 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002nkv. Unique identifier: us10002nkv. Global time and date of event 06/07/15 / 2015-07-06 01:03:47 / July 6, 2015 @ 1:03 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Davutlar, Manisa, Selçuk. Close country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 53 km (33 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Kuşadası (c. 63 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Menemen (c. 53 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Torbalı (c. 50 300 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 16 km ESE of Alacati, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	26.5635° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.2475° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km ESE of Alacati, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-06 01:03:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-06 01:48:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	223	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	us10002nkv	Id of event.
Event Code	10002nkv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10002nkv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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