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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Batikent in Turkey


Earthquake location 40.0649S, 32.7526WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Batikent in Turkey. Id of earthquake: us7000591g. Event ids that are associated: us7000591g. The temblor was detected at 20:42:26 / 8:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 32.7526° East, 40.0649° North, depth 3.21 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.21 km (2 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/08/19 / 2019-08-25 18:42:26 / August 25, 2019 @ 6:42 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eldivan, Polatlı, Karakeçili (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 18 km (11 miles) from Ankara (c. 3 517 200 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Çankaya (c. 792 200 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Batikent (c. 300 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kırıkkale (c. 211 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Polatlı (c. 93 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km N of Batikent, Turkey. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 32.7526° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.0649° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km N of Batikent, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-25 18:42:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-28 05:07:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 168 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 0.199 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000591g Id of event.
Event Code 7000591g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000591g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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