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Light earthquake 4 mag, 12 km SW of Cumaovasi, Turkey


Earthquake location 38.1624S, 27.0514WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (mg/mb) was reported Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Cumaovasi in Turkey. The temblor was reported at 06:32:09 / 6:32 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 7.76 km (5 miles). Global time of event 2015-01-10 04:32:09 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 27.0514 East, latitude 38.1624 North, depth 7.76 km.

Close countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from İzmir (c. 2 500 600 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Karabağlar (c. 458 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Aydın (c. 163 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Turgutlu (c. 103 300 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Didim, Ahmetli, Vrontádos.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 27.0514° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 38.1624° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km SW of Cumaovasi, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-01-10 04:32:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-01-10 05:14:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 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 0.604 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 usc000teex Id of event.
Event Code c000teex An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS usc000teex A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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