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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Yayladere in Turkey

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Yayladere in Turkey. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/05/25 / 2025-05-29 17:14:33 / May 29, 2025 @ 5:14 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 40.2917 East, latitude 39.3197 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000qgpz. Event ids that are associated: us6000qgpz. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:14:33 / 5:14 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arıcak, Erzincan, Palu (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Erzincan (c. 114 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Bingöl (c. 80 600 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Cimin (c. 39 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Karakoçan (c. 29 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Tunceli (c. 29 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kovancılar (c. 23 000 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km ENE of Yayladere, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	40.2917° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.3197° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km ENE of Yayladere, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-29 17:14:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-29 17:39:39	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	259	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	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.715	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	54	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000qgpz	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qgpz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qgpz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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