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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Bigadic in Turkey


Earthquake location 39.2809S, 27.9195WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Bigadic in Turkey. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/05/19 / 2019-05-12 22:24:09 / May 12, 2019 @ 10:24 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:24:09 / 12:24 am (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, 27.9195° East, 39.2809° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us70003k54. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003k54. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 Salihli, Turgutlu, Manisa. Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Balıkesir (c. 238 200 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Turgutlu (c. 103 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Salihli (c. 88 900 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Akhisar (c. 84 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Soma (c. 65 900 pop).

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 three 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 22 km SW of Bigadic, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.9195° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.2809° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SW of Bigadic, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-12 22:24:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-12 22:33:51 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 0.933 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us70003k54 Id of event.
Event Code 70003k54 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003k54, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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