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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Kumburgaz in Turkey

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Kumburgaz in Turkey on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/04/25 / 2025-04-23 11:50:35 / April 23, 2025 @ 11:50 am. Event id: us7000pugg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pugg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 11:50:35 / 11:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 28.3477° East, 40.8616° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from İstanbul (c. 11 174 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Bağcılar (c. 724 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Üsküdar (c. 582 700 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Bahçelievler (c. 576 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Umraniye (c. 573 300 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Esenler (c. 520 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Çiftlikköy, Gemlik, Yalova (min 5000 pop).

Every 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km SSW of Kumburgaz, Turkey. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	28.3477° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.8616° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km SSW of Kumburgaz, 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 11:50:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-23 12:09:16	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	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.228	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	117	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	us7000pugg	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pugg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pugg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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