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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Gürpınar in Turkey

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Earthquake location 40.8412S, 28.4987WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Gürpınar in Turkey. Event id: us7000py7q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000py7q. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 23/04/25 / 2025-04-23 10:02:11 / April 23, 2025 @ 10:02 am UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:02:11 / 10:02 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 28.4987 East, latitude 40.8412 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from İstanbul (c. 11 174 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Bursa (c. 1 412 700 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Bağcılar (c. 724 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Üsküdar (c. 582 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Bahçelievler (c. 576 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Umraniye (c. 573 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Esenler (c. 520 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Karamürsel, Kestel, Gürsu.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 19 km SSW of Gürpınar, Turkey.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 28.4987° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.8412° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km SSW of Gürpınar, 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 10:02:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-14 05:14:49 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.295 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us7000py7q Id of event.
Event Code 7000py7q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000py7q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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