
VolcanoDiscovery will automatically update magnitude and depth if these change and follow up if other significant news about the quake become available. 24,300) 110 km away, and Balkanabat (pop. 12,000) located 100 km from the epicenter, Gumdag (pop. Other towns or cities near the epicenter where the quake might have been felt as very weak shaking include Kizil-Arvat (pop. 21,100) located 57 km from the epicenter.

Weak shaking might have been felt in Bereket (pop. Our monitoring service identified a second report from the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) which listed the quake at magnitude 4.6.īased on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter.

The exact magnitude, epicenter, and depth of the quake might be revised within the next few hours or minutes as seismologists review data and refine their calculations, or as other agencies issue their report. The quake hit at a moderately shallow depth of 30 km beneath the epicenter near Bereket, Balkan, Turkmenistan, in the morning on Sunday 13 December 2020 at 10:48 am local time. An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 occurred only 9 minutes ago 57 km northeast of Bereket, Turkmenistan, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported.
