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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Selimpaşa in Turkey

Posted by admin on April 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.8025S, 28.2762WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Selimpaşa in Turkey. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000pufv. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pufv. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/04/25 / 2025-04-23 10:01:04 / April 23, 2025 @ 10:01 am. The temblor was reported at 10:01:04 / 10:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 28.2762 East, latitude 40.8025 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from İstanbul (c. 11 174 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Bursa (c. 1 412 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Bağcılar (c. 724 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Üsküdar (c. 582 700 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Bahçelievler (c. 576 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Umraniye (c. 573 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Esenler (c. 520 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bursa, Vize, Orhangazi.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three 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.

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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. 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: 29 km SSW of Selimpaşa, Turkey.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 28.2762° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.8025° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29 km SSW of Selimpaşa, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-04-23 10:01:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-23 10:31:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 312 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.148 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us7000pufv Id of event.
Event Code 7000pufv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pufv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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