A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Akyazi in Turkey. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/04/19 / 2019-04-12 13:03:48 / April 12, 2019 @ 1:03 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 15:03:48 / 3:03 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 30.672 East, latitude 40.7028 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us700034ym. Ids that are associated to the event: us700034ym.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ereğli, Karamürsel, İznik (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Adapazarı (c. 286 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from İzmit (c. 196 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Bolu (c. 96 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Körfez (c. 90 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ereğli (c. 88 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Düzce (c. 57 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 4 km ENE of Akyazi, Turkey.
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