Quakedle
Puzzle #82 was 21 km ESE of Feke, Turkey.
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USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M5.0 — moderate class
- Magnitude type
- mww — W-phase moment magnitude
- Depth
- 10.0 km — shallow
- Region
- Turkey and Anatolia
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator not set
- Felt reports
- 3 DYFI reports
- PAGER alert
- No PAGER alert color reported
- Tectonic plates
- Anatolian Plate · Arabian Plate · Eurasian Plate
- Tectonic context
- Arabia’s northward motion drives Anatolia westward along major strike-slip systems including the North and East Anatolian faults.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M5.0. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Moderate (M5.0–5.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 10.0 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Shallow (less than 70 km)
- USGS locates the event at “21 km ESE of Feke, Turkey”. Which broad authored region matches?
- Turkey and Anatolia
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- No — USGS did not set the event’s tsunami indicator; that is not a forecast.
- The event uses magnitude type “mww”. What does that code mean?
- Mww — W-phase moment magnitude