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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near OEluedeniz in Turkey


Earthquake location 36.4001S, 28.8967WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from OEluedeniz in Turkey. Unique identifier: us2000jgbn. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jgbn. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:38:03 / 6:38 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 28.8967° East, latitude 36.4001° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/02/19 / 2019-02-11 16:38:03 / February 11, 2019 @ 4:38 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ula, Marmaris, Archángelos (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 32 km (20 miles) from Fethiye (c. 60 400 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Marmaris (c. 33 700 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Ortaca (c. 19 700 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Dalaman (c. 19 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Sarigerme (c. 16 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 28 km SW of OEluedeniz, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 28.8967° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4001° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km 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 2019-02-11 16:38:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-11 17:05:24 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 259 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 0.596 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us2000jgbn Id of event.
Event Code 2000jgbn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jgbn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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