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


Earthquake location 37.0916S, 28.7331WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Ula in Turkey on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003ad1. Unique identifier: us70003ad1. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/04/19 / 2019-04-22 19:36:40 / April 22, 2019 @ 7:36 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 28.7331° East, latitude 37.0916° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:36:40 / 9:36 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Triánta, Honaz, Milas (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Denizli (c. 313 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Fethiye (c. 60 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Muğla (c. 48 200 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Milas (c. 43 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Marmaris (c. 33 700 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 28 km E of Ula, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 28.7331° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0916° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km E of Ula, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-22 19:36:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-16 20:34:43 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 1.002 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us70003ad1 Id of event.
Event Code 70003ad1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003ad1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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