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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Gökçeada in Turkey

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Gökçeada in Turkey. Id of earthquake: us7000ny4i. Event ids that are associated: us7000ny4i. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 26.1471 East, latitude 40.4315 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 12/12/24 / 2024-12-12 11:34:52 / December 12, 2024 @ 11:34 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 11:34:52 / 11:34 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Çanakkale (c. 87 800 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Alexandroúpoli (c. 53 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Keşan (c. 44 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Malkara (c. 27 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Çan (c. 26 200 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Gelibolu (c. 25 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ayvacık, Çan, Malkara. Country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 32 km NE of Gökçeada, Turkey. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	26.1471° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.4315° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32 km NE of Gökçeada, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-12 11:34:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-12 12:40:29	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	40	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.979	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	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	us7000ny4i	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ny4i	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ny4i,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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