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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Norcia in Italy

Posted by admin on October 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.8071S, 13.0378WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Norcia in Italy. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100072z3. Id of event: us100072z3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/10/16 / 2016-10-29 16:24:33 / October 29, 2016 @ 4:24 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 13.0378 East, latitude 42.8071 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:24:33 / 6:24 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tor Lupara, Popoli, Tivoli (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Perugia (c. 120 100 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Terni (c. 97 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Ancona (c. 90 000 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Guidonia Montecelio (c. 67 500 pop), 31 km (20 miles) from Foligno (c. 47 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Viterbo (c. 47 100 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Montesilvano Marina (c. 46 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 4 km WNW of Norcia, Italy. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 13.0378° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.8071° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km WNW 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 2016-10-29 16:24:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-29 16:51:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 312 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 0.232 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us100072z3 Id of event.
Event Code 100072z3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100072z3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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