Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Sındırgı in Turkey

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Sındırgı in Turkey. Exact location, longitude 28.2779° East, latitude 39.2077° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/10/25 / 2025-10-27 20:29:11 / October 27, 2025 @ 8:29 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:29:11 / 8:29 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rjt2. Unique identifier: us6000rjt2.

Nearby country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mustafakemalpaşa, Emet, Şaphane. The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Balıkesir (c. 238 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Mustafakemalpaşa (c. 101 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Salihli (c. 88 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Akhisar (c. 84 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Soma (c. 65 900 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Simav (c. 34 900 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days fifty-two 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km ESE of Sındırgı, 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	28.2779° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.2077° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km ESE 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	2025-10-27 20:29:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-17 18:37:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	0	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	1.076	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43	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	us6000rjt2	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rjt2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rjt2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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