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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Norcia in Italy


Earthquake location 42.8133S, 13.1657WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Norcia in Italy. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.58 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 13.1657° East, 42.8133° North, depth 6.58 km. Global time and date of event 24/08/16 / 2016-08-24 02:01:08 / August 24, 2016 @ 2:01 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us10006g7l. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006g7l. The temblor was reported at 04:01:08 / 4:01 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chieti, Nepi, Marcellina. Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Perugia (c. 120 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Terni (c. 97 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Ancona (c. 90 000 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Foligno (c. 47 700 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Montesilvano Marina (c. 46 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from San Benedetto del Tronto (c. 45 900 pop).

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

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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: 6 km ENE of Norcia, Italy. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 13.1657° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.8133° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km ENE of Norcia, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-24 02:01:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-29 03:15:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 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 271 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 0.491 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us10006g7l Id of event.
Event Code 10006g7l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006g7l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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