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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Karaburun in Turkey


Earthquake location 38.7715S, 26.4382WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Karaburun in Turkey on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/07/18 / 2018-07-12 19:56:49 / July 12, 2018 @ 7:56 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000g3gz. Unique identifier: us2000g3gz. Exact location, longitude 26.4382° East, latitude 38.7715° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 21:56:49 / 9:56 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Karabağlar, Bergama, İzmir. Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Bergama (c. 57 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Menemen (c. 53 500 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Urla (c. 45 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 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: 15 km NNW of Karaburun, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 26.4382° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.7715° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NNW of Karaburun, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-12 19:56:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-12 21:22:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 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 139 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 2.132 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000g3gz Id of event.
Event Code 2000g3gz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g3gz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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