A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Sındırgı in Turkey. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/08/25 / 2025-08-12 21:30:26 / August 12, 2025 @ 9:30 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.969 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000r07f. Unique identifier: us6000r07f. The temblor was detected at 21:30:26 / 9:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 28.0362° East, 39.1351° North, depth 14.969 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Havran, Susurluk, Kula. Close country/countries that might be effected, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Manisa (c. 244 000 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Balıkesir (c. 238 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Turgutlu (c. 103 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Salihli (c. 88 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Akhisar (c. 84 700 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Soma (c. 65 900 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 17 km SW of Sındırgı, Turkey.

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