Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Aşkale in Turkey

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Aşkale in Turkey. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.742 km (9 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 40.7433 East, latitude 40.034 North, depth = 14.742 km. Unique identifier: us6000rcrq. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rcrq. The temblor was picked up at 08:29:35 / 8:29 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/09/25 / 2025-09-25 08:29:35 / September 25, 2025 @ 8:29 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Çaykara, Uzundere, Karlıova (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Erzurum (c. 420 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Bayburt (c. 31 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Pasinler (c. 24 600 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Aşkale (c. 15 500 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Çaykara (c. 14 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Ilıca (c. 12 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 13 km NNE of Aşkale, Turkey. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	40.7433° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.034° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.742 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km NNE of Aşkale, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-09-25 08:29:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-22 05:21:10	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.19	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us6000rcrq	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rcrq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rcrq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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