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20 February 2023

ALERT: Mw 6.4 TURKEY-SYRIA BORDER REGION 6 km NE Samandagi 20/02/2023 17:04 (UTC)

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Rapid Determination of Source Parameters
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WARNING : These parameters are preliminary and subject to revision.
Location and magnitude estimations may be revised if necessary in
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EARTHQUAKE on 20/02/2023 at 17:04 (UTC)
TURKEY-SYRIA BORDER REGION 6 km NE Samandagi

MAGNITUDE: Mw 6.4

Data provided by: BEO BUD CSLC DDA GFZ GSRC IGC IMP KAN LED
MAD NEIC NEWS SC3

Latitude = 36.13 N
Longitude = 36.04 E
Origin Time = 17:04:29.0 (UTC)
Depth = 10 Km (f)
RMS = 1.70 sec
Gap = 18 degrees
95% confidence ellipse: - Semi major = 4.4 Km
- Semi minor = 3.4 Km
- Azimuth of major axis = 178 degrees

Number of data used = 477

Preliminary location computed on Mon Feb 20 17:18:36 2023 (UTC)
Done by J B

Comments :

Message number: 3408

All magnitudes estimations :
M 6.2 (BEO) M 6.0 (BUD) M 6.5 (DDA) M 6.2 (GFZ)
Mb6.7 (GSRC) M 6.2 (IGC) MW6.2 (IMP) ML6.4 (KAN)
MB6.0 (LED) mb6.2 (MAD) Mw6.4 (NEIC) Mb4.9 (NEWS)
M 6.3 (SC3)

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