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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Golmarmara in Turkey


Earthquake location 38.7516S, 27.8157WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Golmarmara in Turkey. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008vw1. Unique identifier: us10008vw1. Exact location of event, longitude 27.8157 East, latitude 38.7516 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:49:48 / 10:49 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 28/05/17 / 2017-05-28 08:49:48 / May 28, 2017 @ 8:49 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Foça, Selendi, Dikili (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Turgutlu (c. 103 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Salihli (c. 88 900 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Akhisar (c. 84 700 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 9 km WNW of Golmarmara, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.8157° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7516° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km WNW of Golmarmara, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-28 08:49:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-28 09:35:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 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 271 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 0.636 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us10008vw1 Id of event.
Event Code 10008vw1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008vw1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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