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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Bodrum in Turkey


Earthquake location 36.9421S, 27.6242WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Bodrum in Turkey on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 27.6242 East, latitude 36.9421 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 28/05/19 / 2019-05-28 05:27:47 / May 28, 2019 @ 5:27 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 07:27:47 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us60003sy2. Event ids that are associated: us60003sy2.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Archángelos, Söke, Koçarlı (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Söke (c. 68 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Muğla (c. 48 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Milas (c. 43 200 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Bodrum (c. 39 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Marmaris (c. 33 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Didim (c. 26 000 pop).

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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 20 km ESE of Bodrum, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.6242° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9421° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km ESE of Bodrum, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-28 05:27:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-28 07:40:38 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 326 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 0.829 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us60003sy2 Id of event.
Event Code 60003sy2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003sy2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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