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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Andırın in Turkey


Earthquake location 37.3676S, 36.3699WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Andırın in Turkey. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/07/20 / 2020-07-17 21:32:23 / July 17, 2020 @ 9:32 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 21:32:23 / 9:32 pm (local time epicenter). 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) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000b2u9. Unique identifier: us6000b2u9. Exact location, longitude 36.3699° East, latitude 37.3676° North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Kahramanmaraş (c. 376 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Osmaniye (c. 202 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from İskenderun (c. 160 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Ceyhan (c. 96 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Kozan (c. 88 100 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Kadirli (c. 70 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was İskenderun, Aladağ, Yumurtalık. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, 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 one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km S of Andırın, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 36.3699° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.3676° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23 km S of Andırın, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-17 21:32:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-25 02:14:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0.697 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 69 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 us6000b2u9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000b2u9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b2u9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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