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Light earthquake 4 mag, 8 km SSW of Forni di Sotto, Italy


Earthquake location 46.3254S, 12.6167WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Forni di Sotto in Italy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 12.6167° East, 46.3254° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us7000amqk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000amqk. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:06:54 / 12:06 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/07/20 / 2020-07-13 12:06:54 / July 13, 2020 @ 12:06 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Udine (c. 97 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Treviso (c. 77 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Pordenone (c. 49 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Gorizia (c. 34 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Donà di Piave (c. 32 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Conegliano (c. 30 800 pop). Close country/countries, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Staranzano, Castelfranco Veneto, Nova Gorica (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km SSW of Forni di Sotto, Italy.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 12.6167° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.3254° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km SSW of Forni di Sotto, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-13 12:06:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-20 06:45:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 246 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.092 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 22 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000amqk Id of event.
Event Code 7000amqk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000amqk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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