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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Kirkagac in Turkey


Earthquake location 39.1048S, 27.859WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Kirkagac in Turkey. The temblor was reported at 13:26:14 / 1:26 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60007i49. Unique identifier: us60007i49. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.29 km (4 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/01/20 / 2020-01-28 11:26:14 / January 28, 2020 @ 11:26 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 27.859° East, latitude 39.1048° North, depth = 6.29 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manyas, Ayvalık, Karabağlar (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Balıkesir (c. 238 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Turgutlu (c. 103 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Salihli (c. 88 900 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Akhisar (c. 84 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 16 km E of Kirkagac, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.859° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.1048° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km E of Kirkagac, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-28 11:26:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-28 11:46:54 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 2.2 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 400 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 0.534 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 20 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 us60007i49 Id of event.
Event Code 60007i49 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007i49, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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