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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Doganyol in Turkey

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Doganyol in Turkey. Exact location, longitude 39.1319° East, latitude 38.2265° North, depth = 10 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:57:19 / 2:57 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us60007fbb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007fbb. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/01/20 / 2020-01-25 00:57:19 / January 25, 2020 @ 12:57 am.

Nearby 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 Palu, Kovancılar, Dicle. Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Malatya (c. 441 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Elazığ (c. 298 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Siverek (c. 175 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Kâhta (c. 73 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ergani (c. 52 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Kovancılar (c. 23 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 12 km SE of Doganyol, Turkey.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	39.1319° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.2265° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km SE of Doganyol, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-25 00:57:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-25 01:15:14	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	1.591	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	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	us60007fbb	Id of event.
Event Code	60007fbb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007fbb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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