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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Erdek in Turkey


Earthquake location 40.5104S, 27.8564WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Erdek in Turkey on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 11.78 km, 27.8564° East, 40.5104° North. The temblor was reported at 22:12:02 / 10:12 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/12/17 / 2017-12-31 20:12:02 / December 31, 2017 @ 8:12 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.78 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000byld. Unique identifier: us1000byld.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Esenyurt (c. 211 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Çorlu (c. 202 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Büyükçekmece (c. 163 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Beylikdüzü (c. 122 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Tekirdağ (c. 122 300 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Bandırma (c. 107 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Malkara, Esenyurt, Mudanya (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

Questions or comments?

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. 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: 13 km NNE of Erdek, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.8564° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.5104° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NNE of Erdek, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-31 20:12:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-02 23:00:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 285 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 0.869 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us1000byld Id of event.
Event Code 1000byld An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000byld, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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