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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Başkale in Turkey


Earthquake location 37.9929S, 43.7869WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Başkale in Turkey. Event id: us7000cskx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cskx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:32:54 / 4:32 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/12/20 / 2020-12-20 04:32:54 / December 20, 2020 @ 4:32 am. Exact location of event, longitude 43.7869 East, latitude 37.9929 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salmās, Çukurca, Özalp (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Van (c. 371 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Salmās (c. 81 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Hakkari (c. 77 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Yüksekova (c. 71 700 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Başkale (c. 14 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Gevaş (c. 11 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 21 km WSW of Başkale, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 43.7869° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.9929° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km WSW of Başkale, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-20 04:32:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-20 04:51:05 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 284 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 0.656 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us7000cskx Id of event.
Event Code 7000cskx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cskx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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