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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Sındırgı in Turkey

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Sındırgı in Turkey. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 28.1452° East, 39.2315° North. The temblor was picked up at 11:16:04 / 11:16 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/08/25 / 2025-08-23 11:16:04 / August 23, 2025 @ 11:16 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000r3b5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r3b5.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manisa, Mustafakemalpaşa, Manyas (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Balıkesir (c. 238 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Turgutlu (c. 103 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Mustafakemalpaşa (c. 101 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Salihli (c. 88 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Akhisar (c. 84 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 3 km WSW of Sındırgı, Turkey.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	28.1452° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.2315° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km WSW of Sındırgı, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-23 11:16:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-23 12:58:09	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	271	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.977	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68	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	us6000r3b5	Id of event.
Event Code	6000r3b5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000r3b5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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