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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Bodrum in Turkey

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Bodrum in Turkey on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:36:24 / 11:36 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000aw8c. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000aw8c. 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: 24/10/17 / 2017-10-24 09:36:24 / October 24, 2017 @ 9:36 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 27.3841° East, 36.9562° North.

The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Söke (c. 68 200 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Muğla (c. 48 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Milas (c. 43 200 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Bodrum (c. 39 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Marmaris (c. 33 700 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Didim (c. 26 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ródos, Çine, Koçarlı.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 9 km SSW of Bodrum, Turkey.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	27.3841° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.9562° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km SSW of Bodrum, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-10-24 09:36:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-24 09:55:35	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	312	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	0.949	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	44	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	us1000aw8c	Id of event.
Event Code	1000aw8c	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000aw8c,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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