Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Qastal Ma`af in Syria

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Qastal Ma`af in Syria. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70008wkw. Unique identifier: us70008wkw. The temblor was picked up at 09:40:06 / 9:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 35.5123 East, latitude 35.8884 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/04/20 / 2020-04-15 07:40:06 / April 15, 2020 @ 7:40 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Latakia (c. 340 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Antakya (c. 210 000 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from İskenderun (c. 160 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Jablah (c. 65 900 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Jisr ash Shughūr (c. 39 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Bāniyās (c. 39 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Salqīn (c. 31 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was İskenderun, Kafr Takhārīm, Belen (min 5000 pop). Close 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 40 km W of Qastal Ma`af, Syria. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	35.5123° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.8884° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40km W of Qastal Ma`af, Syria	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-04-15 07:40:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-15 07:54:55	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	340	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	1.873	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.99 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	us70008wkw	Id of event.
Event Code	70008wkw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008wkw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.7 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

35.5123° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

35.8884° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

40km W of Qastal Ma`af, Syria

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2020-04-15 07:40:06

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-04-15 07:54:55

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

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

340

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.873

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.99 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us70008wkw

Id of event.

Event Code

70008wkw

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us70008wkw,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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