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Moderate mag. 4.4 earthquake - 6.8 km southwest of Göksun, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, on Saturday, Mar 18, 2023 at 8:14 am (GMT +3) -

This quake was likely an aftershock of the 7.8 quake 32 km west of Gaziantep, Turkey, Feb 6, 2023 3:17 am (GMT +2), which had occurred 6 weeks earlier.

Moderate mag. 4.4 earthquake - 6.8 km southwest of Göksun, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, on Saturday, Mar 18, 2023 at 8:14 am (GMT +3)

Moderate magnitude 4.4 earthquake at 7 km depth

18 Mar 05:19 UTC: First to report: GFZ after 5 minutes.
18 Mar 05:20: Magnitude recalculated from 4.2 to 4.1. Epicenter location corrected by 0.9 km (0.5 mi) towards W.
18 Mar 05:31: Now using data updates from USGS

Earthquake details

Date & time	Mar 18, 2023 05:14:29 UTC -
Local time at epicenter	Saturday, Mar 18, 2023 at 8:14 am (GMT +3)
Status	Confirmed
Magnitude	4.4
Depth	7.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude	37.9741°N / 36.4482°E (Kahramanmaraş, Turkey)
Antipode	37.974°S / 143.552°W
Shaking intensity	Moderate shaking near epicenter
Felt	0 reports
Primary data source	USGS (United States Geological Survey)
Nearest volcano	Erciyes Dagi (107 km / 66 mi)
Nearby towns and cities	7 km (4 mi) SW of Göksun (pop: 34,200) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 51 km (32 mi) SW of Afşin (pop: 39,600) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 60 km (38 mi) NW of Kahramanmaraş (pop: 376,000) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 71 km (44 mi) WSW of Elbistan (pop: 80,500) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 74 km (46 mi) NNE of Kadirli (Osmaniye) (pop: 70,200) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 80 km (50 mi) NE of Kozan (Provincia de Adana) (pop: 88,100) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 148 km (92 mi) NE of Adana (pop: 1,249,000) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby 379 km (235 mi) ESE of Ankara (pop: 3,517,200) \| Show on map \| Quakes nearby
Weather at epicenter at time of quake	Overcast Clouds 3.2°C (38 F), humidity: 98%, wind: 2 m/s (4 kts) from ENE
Estimated seismic energy released	2.5 x 10¹¹ joules (69.8 megawatt hours, equivalent to 60 tons of TNT) \| about seismic energy

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Data for the same earthquake reported by different agencies

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Mag.	Depth	Location	Source
4.4	7 km	6 Km SW of Göksun, Turkey	USGS
4.4	7 km	Turkey	RaspberryShake
4.6	2.8 km	Turkey: YIRICEK-GOKSUN (KAHRAMANMARAS)	KOERI-RETMC
4.3	10 km	Turkey	GFZ
4.5	10 km	CENTRAL TURKEY	EMSC
4.4	10 km	Turkey	IRIS
4.5	20 km	Turkey	INGV

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Seismograms

Seismic station: GEOFON Station Eilat, Israel (EIL/GE network) | Distance from quake: 934 km / 580 mi | Show on map | Station Info

Seismic station GEOFON Station Eilat, Israel: vertical movement plot around time of quake (source: IRIS/BUD)

Seismogram (vertical component) around time of quake. Thin dotted red line indicates time of quake. Seismic waves arrive some time later, depending on distance. Bandpass filter applied: 0.2-5.0 Hz. Source: IRIS Buffer of Uniform Data (BUD) webtool

User reports for this quake (5)

User reports estimate the perceived ground shaking intensity according to the MMI (Modified Mercalli Intensity) scale.

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Silifke, Mersin (292.9 km SW of epicenter) [Map] / not felt (reported through our app)

Jablah, Latakia (291.4 km S of epicenter) [Map] / not felt (reported through our app)

اللاذقية / not felt (reported through our app)

Famagusta North Cyprus / not felt

حلب / not felt (reported through our app)

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