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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Simav in Turkey

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Simav in Turkey on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:23:44 / 4:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/04/25 / 2025-04-25 04:23:44 / April 25, 2025 @ 4:23 am. Event id: us7000puyk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000puyk. Exact location of event, longitude 28.9654 East, latitude 39.3125 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Kütahya (c. 185 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Uşak (c. 152 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Mustafakemalpaşa (c. 101 400 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Tavşanlı (c. 52 200 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Simav (c. 34 900 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Kula (c. 31 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Susurluk (c. 24 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Susurluk, Mustafakemalpaşa, Banaz.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 24 km N of Simav, Turkey.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	28.9654° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.3125° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24 km N of Simav, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-25 04:23:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-25 04:50:07	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	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	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.282	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	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	us7000puyk	Id of event.
Event Code	7000puyk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000puyk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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