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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near `Ayn al Bayda in Syria


Earthquake location 35.791S, 35.5428WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from `Ayn al Bayda in Syria. Exact location of event, longitude 35.5428 East, latitude 35.791 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/04/20 / 2020-04-14 22:37:56 / April 14, 2020 @ 10:37 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008wcj. Unique identifier: us70008wcj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:37:56 / 12:37 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salqīn, Karataş, Serinyol (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) from Latakia (c. 340 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Antakya (c. 210 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Jablah (c. 65 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Jisr ash Shughūr (c. 39 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bāniyās (c. 39 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Salqīn (c. 31 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Syria (c. 22 198 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

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

Questions or comments?

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. 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: 34 km WNW of `Ayn al Bayda, Syria.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 35.5428° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.791° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km WNW of `Ayn al Bayda, Syria Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-14 22:37:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-14 23:23:18 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 272 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 1.924 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us70008wcj Id of event.
Event Code 70008wcj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008wcj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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