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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Akhisar in Turkey


Earthquake location 39.0706S, 27.881WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Akhisar in Turkey. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/02/20 / 2020-02-04 17:55:25 / February 4, 2020 @ 5:55 pm. The temblor was detected at 19:55:25 / 7:55 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us60007pkf. Event ids that are associated: us60007pkf. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 27.881° East, 39.0706° North.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Karabağlar, İzmir, Kiraz (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Event epicenter was 97 km (61 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Balıkesir (c. 238 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Turgutlu (c. 103 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Salihli (c. 88 900 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Akhisar (c. 84 700 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km NNE of Akhisar, Turkey. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.881° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.0706° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NNE of Akhisar, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-04 17:55:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-04 18:15:50 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 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 370 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 0.568 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us60007pkf Id of event.
Event Code 60007pkf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007pkf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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