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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Gümüşhacıköy in Turkey


Earthquake location 40.9474S, 35.1315WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Gümüşhacıköy in Turkey. Exact location, longitude 35.1315° East, latitude 40.9474° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us6000qg7w. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qg7w. The temblor was picked up at 09:26:28 / 9:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/05/25 / 2025-05-12 09:26:28 / May 12, 2025 @ 9:26 am UTC/GMT. 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).

Earthquake epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Çorum (c. 183 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Bafra (c. 92 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Amasya (c. 82 900 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Zile (c. 55 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Merzifon (c. 50 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Suluova (c. 47 600 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Osmancık (c. 36 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zile, Gerze, Bafra (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 10 km NW of Gümüşhacıköy, Turkey.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 35.1315° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.9474° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km NW of Gümüşhacıköy, Turkey Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-12 09:26:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-04 13:37:18 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 70 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.076 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us6000qg7w Id of event.
Event Code 6000qg7w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qg7w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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