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Summary:

Magnitude	MD 2.9
Region	EASTERN TURKEY

Date time	2009-01-15 at 05:11:04.8 UTC
Location	41.1 N ; 42.03 E
Depth	3 km
Distances	69 km SE Batumi (pop 118,282 ; local time 07:11 2009-01-15) 20 km SE Artvin (pop 24,266 ; local time 07:11 2009-01-15) 4 km SW Ardanuç (pop 5,318 ; local time 07:11 2009-01-15)
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References for tectonic plate boundaries:
Bird, P. (2003) An updated digital model of plate boundaries,
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 4(3), 1027.

Google maps view: Seismicity from the previous 7 days in the area

Regional instrumental seismicity

This seismicity maps have been generated by concatenating the ISC catalogue (since 1964), the EMSC Euro-Med Bulletin catalogue and the EMSC Real Time catalogue. Therefore, they show the seismicity from 1964 until the earthquake occurrence.

Regional deadly earthquakes from year 1500 to 2000

Date

Long.

Lat.

Mag.

Death

Location

1458-04-00	40.4	39.9	7.6	32000	EASTERN TURKEY
1458-11-08	40.4	39.9	?	100	EASTERN TURKEY
1481-03-00	40.4	39.9	7.7	3000	EASTERN TURKEY
1482	40.4	39.9	?	30000	EASTERN TURKEY
1660	41.3	40.0	6.5	1500	EASTERN TURKEY
1707	43.0	40.4	?	1000s	TURKEY-ARMENIA BORDER REGION
1840-07-02	43.9	39.5	7.4	1000	EASTERN TURKEY
1840-07-15	43.0	39.5	?	many	EASTERN TURKEY
1859-05-21	41.5	40.0	?	500	EASTERN TURKEY
1859-06-02	41.0	40.0	6.4	2000	EASTERN TURKEY
1888-09-22	43.3	41.3	6.1	many	GEORGIA-TURKEY BORDER REGION
1899-12-31	43.6	41.6	6.3	248	GEORGIA-TURKEY BORDER REGION
1900-07-12	43.1	40.3	5.9	140	TURKEY-ARMENIA BORDER REGION
1903-05-28	42.8	40.9	5.4	1000	EASTERN TURKEY
1920-02-20	44.0	41.9	6.2	130	GEORGIA-ARMENIA BORDER REGION
1924-05-13	42.0	40.0	5.3	50	EASTERN TURKEY
1924-09-13	42.1	40.0	6.8	30	EASTERN TURKEY
1924-09-20	41.3	40.0	?	60	EASTERN TURKEY
1924-12-19	39.7	41.0	?	210	EASTERN TURKEY
1925-01-09	42.8	41.2	5.8	200	GEORGIA-TURKEY BORDER REGION
1925-02-08	42.7	41.8	5.5	140	GEORGIA-TURKEY BORDER REGION
1926-10-22	43.7	40.7	5.7	370	TURKEY-ARMENIA BORDER REGION
1935-05-01	43.7	40.6	6.2	500	TURKEY-ARMENIA BORDER REGION
1941-09-10	43.0	39.5	6.0	500	EASTERN TURKEY
1946-05-31	41.5	40.0	6.0	1300	EASTERN TURKEY
1949-08-17	40.9	39.4	6.7	320	EASTERN TURKEY
1952-01-03	41.7	39.9	6.0	103	EASTERN TURKEY
1966-08-20	40.9	39.3	5.4	25	EASTERN TURKEY
1967-07-26	40.4	39.5	6.0	110	EASTERN TURKEY
1983-10-30	42.2	40.3	6.9	1400	EASTERN TURKEY
1988-12-07	44.2	41.0	6.8	25000	GEORGIA-ARMENIA BORDER REGION
1991-04-29	43.7	42.5	7.0	184	RUSSIA-GEORGIA BORDER REGION

Source: T. Utsu ; International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology; vol. A; 691-718

More information at:

Earthquake Research Department Ankara, Turkey

Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute Istanbul, Turkey

Seismic Monitoring Centre of Georgia (SMC) Tbilisi, Georgia

Geophysical Survey. Russian Academy of Sciences Obninsk, Russia

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Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Istanbul, Turkey (KAN)

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