A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Sındırgı in Turkey. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 28.2458 East, latitude 39.2339 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:54:14 / 7:54 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rjvu. Unique identifier: us6000rjvu. Global time and date of event 28/10/25 / 2025-10-28 07:54:14 / October 28, 2025 @ 7:54 am UTC/GMT.
Event epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Balıkesir (c. 238 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Turgutlu (c. 103 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Mustafakemalpaşa (c. 101 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Salihli (c. 88 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Akhisar (c. 84 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Soma (c. 65 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gediz, Alaşehir, Manisa (min 5000 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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