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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Kozan in Turkey


Earthquake location 37.3958S, 35.8992WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Kozan in Turkey. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hcwj. Unique identifier: us1000hcwj. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 11:08:24 / 11:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/10/18 / 2018-10-10 09:08:24 / October 10, 2018 @ 9:08 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 35.8992° East, latitude 37.3958° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was İskenderun, Kahramanmaraş, Yahyalı (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Adana (c. 1 249 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Kahramanmaraş (c. 376 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Osmaniye (c. 202 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from İskenderun (c. 160 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Ceyhan (c. 96 300 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Kozan (c. 88 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 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 SE of Kozan, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 35.8992° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3958° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SE of Kozan, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-10 09:08:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-03 13:03:01 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 284 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 1.068 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us1000hcwj Id of event.
Event Code 1000hcwj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hcwj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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