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Title: Kalkan 3.1 Earthquake??
Post by: emma on May 20, 2011, 08:52:13 PM: Hope everyone is OK?
I am slightly freaked having seen this report.
Can someone give us any news on this?

3.1
Mercalli scale:    1
Date-Time [UTC]:    20 May, 2011 at 14:32:08 UTC
Local Date/Time:    Friday, May 20, 2011 at 14:32 in the afternoon at epicenter
Location:    39° 5.400, 29° 3.600
Depth:    7 km (4.35 miles)
Region:    Asia
Country:    Turkey
Distances: 0.94 km (0.58 miles) SE of Kalkan,
Source:    EMSC
Title: Re: Kalkan 3.1 Earthquake??
Post by: alantj on May 20, 2011, 10:14:55 PM: I cannot see anything on the news feeds about an Earthquake so it cannot have caused any damage.

3.1 is very small Fleetwood near Blackpool had a 2.9 a month or two ago.
Title: Re: Kalkan 3.1 Earthquake??
Post by: emma on May 20, 2011, 10:26:38 PM: Still would like to hear from friends, people in Kalkan, that all is okay.

There have been numerous quakes in Turkey today, the largest on some sites is reported as a mag' 6

5.8 on the USGS : http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2011/usc0003j4a/
Date-Time

* Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 20:15:24 UTC
* Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 11:15:24 PM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location   39.137°N, 29.074°E
Depth   9.1 km (5.7 miles)
Region   WESTERN TURKEY
Distances   53 km (32 miles) NNW of Usak, Turkey
82 km (50 miles) WSW of Kutahya, Turkey
120 km (74 miles) S of Bursa, Turkey
332 km (206 miles) WSW of ANKARA, Turkey
Location Uncertainty   horizontal +/- 11.2 km (7.0 miles); depth +/- 3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Parameters   NST=412, Nph=413, Dmin=190.4 km, Rmss=0.94 sec, Gp= 22°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=C
Source

* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Title: Re: Kalkan 3.1 Earthquake??
Post by: saskia on May 20, 2011, 11:28:23 PM: Just to put your minds at rest I am in Kalkan and didn't feel a thing! I am sure that if you ask most people here they will say the same thing. There was an earthquake some months ago where the epicentre was in the sea not far from Kaş and it was said to be over 5 on the Richter scale but again very few people even felt it and no damage was done. So please don't worry everything is fine here.
Title: Re: Kalkan 3.1 Earthquake??
Post by: emma on May 20, 2011, 11:46:20 PM: Excellent News...
Thanks Saskia
:)
Title: Re: Kalkan 3.1 Earthquake??
Post by: Wally on May 21, 2011, 07:23:22 AM: :D We live in old Kalkan I didn't notice anything different although Mrs Wally said the earth did move for her but alas its because I fell out of bed ! ;) :)
Title: Re: Kalkan 3.1 Earthquake??
Post by: Cosetta on May 21, 2011, 07:48:57 AM: We felt nothing and the Turkish seismicity site does not list any quake activity here, or even near here, in the last few days: http://www.koeri.boun.edu.tr/sismo/map/en/sevendays.html (http://www.koeri.boun.edu.tr/sismo/map/en/sevendays.html)

BTW, apparently there are TWO Kalkans in Turkey, I once saw this on a map.
Title: Re: Kalkan 3.1 Earthquake??
Post by: pw on May 21, 2011, 08:18:58 AM: Quote from: Wally on May 21, 2011, 07:23:22 AM
:D We live in old Kalkan I didn't notice anything different although Mrs Wally said the earth did move for her but alas its because I fell out of bed ! ;) :)

Mrs PW also felt a tremor !
Title: Re: Kalkan 3.1 Earthquake??
Post by: amber on May 21, 2011, 08:53:42 AM: Didnt feel a thing!!
Title: Re: Kalkan 3.1 Earthquake??
Post by: saskia on May 21, 2011, 09:09:18 AM: Quote
Distances 53 km (32 miles) NNW of Usak, Turkey
82 km (50 miles) WSW of Kutahya, Turkey
Cossetta is right, I didn't notice this when I first read Emma's post, this is a completely different Kalkan much, much further north, nearer Istanbul than Kalkan.