November 23, 2022 M 6.1 Western Turkey Earthquake

Event response pages are a service to help coordinate community science after an earthquake or other notable geophysical event by collecting relevant data. Findings and figures are preliminary and subject to revision.

At 01:08:15 (UTC) on November 23, a magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred in Western Turkey. For more information, see the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program event page.

The event was recorded by borehole instruments in the NSF-supported GeoGONAF network, a collaboration of UNAVCO, AFAD, and GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, which was designed to monitor and study the North Anatolian Fault.

These data are provided by the Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (GAGE) Facility, operated by UNAVCO, Inc. with support from the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under NSF Cooperative Agreement EAR-1724794. To acknowledge use of these data please follow the acknowledgment guidelines.

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Written by:

  • Scott K. Johnson
  • Posted: 23 November 2022
  • Last updated: 23 November 2022

Did you feel it?

The USGS collects information from people who felt an earthquake and creates maps that show what people experienced and the extent of the damage

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Borehole Strain Data

High-rate data from borehole strainmeters will be available here.

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