A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Maltignano in Italy. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006tqg. Id of event: us20006tqg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 13.1422 East, latitude 42.6728 North, depth = 7.33 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:22:06 / 1:22 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.33 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/08/16 / 2016-08-24 23:22:06 / August 24, 2016 @ 11:22 pm UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Olevano Romano, Sambuceto, Pescara (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Perugia (c. 120 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Pescara (c. 116 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Terni (c. 97 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Guidonia Montecelio (c. 67 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Foligno (c. 47 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Viterbo (c. 47 100 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km ESE of Maltignano, Italy.
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