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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 34 km WSW of Gölhisar, Turkey


Earthquake location 37.0287S, 29.1466WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Gölhisar in Turkey. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000d18b. Id of event: us7000d18b. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 29.1466° East, 37.0287° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/01/21 / 2021-01-19 00:41:09 / January 19, 2021 @ 12:41 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 00:41:09 / 12:41 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Korkuteli, Karacasu, Denizli. The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Denizli (c. 313 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Fethiye (c. 60 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Muğla (c. 48 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Marmaris (c. 33 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Korkuteli (c. 20 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Ortaca (c. 19 700 pop). Close country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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 WSW of Gölhisar, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 29.1466° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.0287° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34 km WSW of Gölhisar, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-19 00:41:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-19 01:17:45 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 298 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 0.671 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us7000d18b Id of event.
Event Code 7000d18b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d18b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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