Strong earthquake: M6 quake has struck near Visso in Italy

A earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Visso in Italy on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 21:18:08 / 9:18 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/10/16 / 2016-10-26 19:18:08 / October 26, 2016 @ 7:18 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 13.0736° East, 42.9621° North. Unique identifier: us1000725y. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000725y.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Serravalle, Bracciano, Acquaviva. Epicenter of the event was 58 km (36 miles) from Perugia (c. 120 100 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Pescara (c. 116 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Terni (c. 97 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Ancona (c. 90 000 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Pesaro (c. 77 200 pop), 112 km (69 miles) from Arezzo (c. 76 300 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Guidonia Montecelio (c. 67 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Foligno (c. 47 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km NNW of Visso, Italy. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	13.0736° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.9621° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km NNW 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	2016-10-26 19:18:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-26 19:50:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	108	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	7.89	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	pending	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	611	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	0.216	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	21	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000725y	Id of event.
Event Code	1000725y	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000725y,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

13.0736° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

42.9621° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

3km NNW 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

2016-10-26 19:18:08

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-10-26 19:50:30

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

120

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

108

The total number of felt reports

CDI

5.3

The maximum reported intensity for the event.

MMI

7.89

The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.

Alert Level

pending

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

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

611

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.216

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.08 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

mwb

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us1000725y

Id of event.

Event Code

1000725y

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us1000725y,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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