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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Saray in Turkey


Earthquake location 38.4213S, 44.3183WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Saray in Turkey. Exact location of event, longitude 44.3183 East, latitude 38.4213 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:20:50 / 11:20 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70007v3g. Unique identifier: us70007v3g. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/02/20 / 2020-02-23 07:50:50 / February 23, 2020 @ 7:50 am.

The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Van (c. 371 700 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Khvoy (c. 175 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Salmās (c. 81 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from (c. 31 900 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Başkale (c. 14 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Özalp (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Van, , Khvoy. Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 28 km SSE of Saray, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 44.3183° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.4213° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km SSE of Saray, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-23 07:50:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-19 12:57:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 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 0.996 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 88 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 us70007v3g Id of event.
Event Code 70007v3g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007v3g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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