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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near OEluedeniz in Turkey


Earthquake location 36.3356S, 28.7874WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 41 kilometers (25 miles) from OEluedeniz in Turkey on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000c5lg. Unique identifier: us2000c5lg. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/12/17 / 2017-12-11 15:22:10 / December 11, 2017 @ 3:22 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 47.95 km (30 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 17:22:10 / 5:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 28.7874° East, latitude 36.3356° North, depth = 47.95 km.

Nearby country/countries, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Fethiye (c. 60 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Marmaris (c. 33 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ortaca (c. 19 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Dalaman (c. 19 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Sarigerme (c. 16 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ula, Kaş, Marmaris (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eleven 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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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: 41 km SW of OEluedeniz, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 28.7874° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3356° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SW of OEluedeniz, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-11 15:22:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-27 16:38:58 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 298 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 0.552 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us2000c5lg Id of event.
Event Code 2000c5lg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c5lg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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