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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Sındırgı in Turkey


Earthquake location 39.2058S, 28.0683WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Sındırgı in Turkey. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/09/25 / 2025-09-01 20:09:50 / September 1, 2025 @ 8:09 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000qt4m. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qt4m. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:09:50 / 8:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 28.0683 East, latitude 39.2058 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Balıkesir (c. 238 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Turgutlu (c. 103 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Salihli (c. 88 900 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Akhisar (c. 84 700 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Soma (c. 65 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Havran, Kula, Manisa. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km WSW of Sındırgı, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 28.0683° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.2058° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 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 2025-09-01 20:09:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-08 17:21:36 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.914 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us7000qt4m Id of event.
Event Code 7000qt4m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qt4m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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