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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 33 km N of Sinop, Turkey


Earthquake location 42.3276S, 35.1098WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Sinop in Turkey. Global time and date of event 22/07/16 / 2016-07-22 21:40:10 / July 22, 2016 @ 9:40 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 35.1098 East, latitude 42.3276 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:40:10 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20006gyl. Unique identifier: us20006gyl.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Event epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Sinop (c. 34 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ayancık (c. 11 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Gerze (c. 11 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Türkeli (c. 8 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Yakakent (c. 5 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yakakent, Türkeli, Ayancık (min 5000 pop).

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 have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 33 km N of Sinop, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 35.1098° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.3276° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km N of Sinop, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-22 21:40:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-22 21:54:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 284 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 0.901 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us20006gyl Id of event.
Event Code 20006gyl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006gyl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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