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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Side in Turkey


Earthquake location 36.5134S, 31.4581WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Side in Turkey. Exact location of event, depth 87.55 km, 31.4581° East, 36.5134° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/11/19 / 2019-11-01 10:17:04 / November 1, 2019 @ 10:17 am. The temblor was detected at 12:17:04 / 12:17 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us700061xu. Unique identifier: us700061xu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 87.55 km (54 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Antalya (c. 758 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Alanya (c. 113 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Manavgat (c. 99 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Belek (c. 73 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Serik (c. 36 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Mahmutlar (c. 24 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tekirova, Göynük, Gazipaşa.

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km SSE of Side, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 31.4581° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5134° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km SSE of Side, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-01 10:17:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-01 10:43:13 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 246 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 1.268 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us700061xu Id of event.
Event Code 700061xu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700061xu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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