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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 8 km SSW of Visso, Italy


Earthquake location 42.8642S, 13.0321WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Visso in Italy on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/08/16 / 2016-08-28 16:42:02 / August 28, 2016 @ 4:42 pm. Id of earthquake: us20006uu0. Event ids that are associated: us20006uu0. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:42:02 / 6:42 pm (local time epicenter). 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 event, depth 10 km, 13.0321° East, 42.8642° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from Perugia (c. 120 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Terni (c. 97 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Ancona (c. 90 000 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Foligno (c. 47 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Viterbo (c. 47 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from San Benedetto del Tronto (c. 45 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ronciglione, Città di Castello, Palombara Sabina (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 three, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km SSW of Visso, Italy. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 13.0321° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.8642° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSW of Visso, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-28 16:42:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-28 19:21:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.3 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 285 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 0.067 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us20006uu0 Id of event.
Event Code 20006uu0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006uu0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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