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Moderate earthquake 5.8 mag, 5 km S of İçmeler, Turkey


Earthquake location 36.7471S, 28.2323WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from İçmeler in Turkey on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 74.036 km (46 miles). Exact location of event, depth 74.036 km, 28.2323° East, 36.7471° North. The temblor was detected at 23:17:28 / 11:17 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 02/06/25 / 2025-06-02 23:17:28 / June 2, 2025 @ 11:17 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qhiq. Unique identifier: us6000qhiq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tavas, Karacasu, Kálymnos (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Fethiye (c. 60 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ródos (c. 56 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Muğla (c. 48 200 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Milas (c. 43 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Bodrum (c. 39 300 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Marmaris (c. 33 700 pop), 112 km (70 miles) from Didim (c. 26 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Çine (c. 21 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop), Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 5 km S of İçmeler, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 28.2323° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7471° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.036 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km S of İçmeler, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-06-02 23:17:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-02 23:34:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.1 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 524 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 116 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.54 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000qhiq Id of event.
Event Code 6000qhiq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qhiq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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