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Light earthquake 4 mag, 13 km NNW of Datca, Turkey


Earthquake location 36.851S, 27.638WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Datca in Turkey on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: us20009yqh. Unique identifier: us20009yqh. The temblor was picked up at 02:33:35 / 2:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 27.638° East, 36.851° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/07/17 / 2017-07-21 00:33:35 / July 21, 2017 @ 12:33 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Muğla (c. 48 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Milas (c. 43 200 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Bodrum (c. 39 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Marmaris (c. 33 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Didim (c. 26 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Archángelos, Afántou, Muğla (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 13 km NNW of Datca, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.638° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.851° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NNW of Datca, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-21 00:33:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-21 01:03:29 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 246 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 0.745 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us20009yqh Id of event.
Event Code 20009yqh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009yqh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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