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Light earthquake 4 mag, northern Italy


Earthquake location 44.9851S, 7.2902WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported northern Italy kilometers (0 miles) from northern Italy on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us100068v0. Event ids that are associated: us100068v0. The temblor was detected at 20:21:38 / 8:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/07/16 / 2016-07-30 20:21:38 / July 30, 2016 @ 8:21 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.58 km (2 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 3.58 km, 7.2902° East, 44.9851° North.

The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Turin (c. 870 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Asti (c. 61 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Moncalieri (c. 49 200 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Nichelino (c. 47 600 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Collegno (c. 46 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Cuneo (c. 46 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Candelo, Biella, Nizza Monferrato (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: northern Italy. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 7.2902° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.9851° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place northern Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-30 20:21:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-30 21:37:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 247 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 0.439 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us100068v0 Id of event.
Event Code 100068v0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100068v0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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