M 4.6 moderate shallow earthquake shakes Sile, Turkey. Tremor even felt in Istanbul.
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M 4.6 moderate earthquake shakes Western Turkey today, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
According to the USGS, the quake's epicenter was 112 km N of Sile and 136 km N of Istanbul. It was 11 miles deep.
Looking intensity and epicenter location, light to weak shaking will have felt by the people of Sile, Istanbul, Boyalik and Sisli.
Magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Istanbul in 1509 (The Lesser Judgment Day) killed 10,000 people.
Earthquake prediction in Istanbul
According to the Professor Okan Tuysuz, director of the Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, there is a 65%, a high probability that magnitude 7.6 earthquake will hit Istanbul by 2030.
Istanbul lies 20 km north of the North Anatolian Fault, which is famous for magnitude 7 or greater earthquake every century.
12:44 UTC (local time Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 02:44 PM @ epicenter)
Epicenter Location
112 km N of Sile, Turkey
128 km NE of Boyalik, Turkey
133 km NNE of Sultangazi, Turkey
133 km NNE of Sisli, Turkey
Photo: Istanbul, Turkey (Black Sea) earthquake epicenter map; EMSC
Original post: Natural Disasters List March 19, 2013
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M 4.6 moderate earthquake shakes Western Turkey today, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
According to the USGS, the quake's epicenter was 112 km N of Sile and 136 km N of Istanbul. It was 11 miles deep.
Looking intensity and epicenter location, light to weak shaking will have felt by the people of Sile, Istanbul, Boyalik and Sisli.
Magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Istanbul in 1509 (The Lesser Judgment Day) killed 10,000 people.
Earthquake prediction in Istanbul
According to the Professor Okan Tuysuz, director of the Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, there is a 65%, a high probability that magnitude 7.6 earthquake will hit Istanbul by 2030.
Istanbul lies 20 km north of the North Anatolian Fault, which is famous for magnitude 7 or greater earthquake every century.
12:44 UTC (local time Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 02:44 PM @ epicenter)
Epicenter Location
112 km N of Sile, Turkey
128 km NE of Boyalik, Turkey
133 km NNE of Sultangazi, Turkey
133 km NNE of Sisli, Turkey
Photo: Istanbul, Turkey (Black Sea) earthquake epicenter map; EMSC
Original post: Natural Disasters List March 19, 2013
Are you from this area? Or are you familiar with this natural disaster? Kindly write your experience in a few sentence in the comment box below.