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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Cascia in Italy

Posted by admin on October 30, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.7654S, 12.9672WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Cascia in Italy on Sunday. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:36:01 / 9:36 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000731w. Id of event: us1000731w. Exact location, longitude 12.9672° East, latitude 42.7654° North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/10/16 / 2016-10-30 08:36:01 / October 30, 2016 @ 8:36 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manziana, Bracciano, Luco dei Marsi (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Perugia (c. 120 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Terni (c. 97 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Guidonia Montecelio (c. 67 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Foligno (c. 47 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Viterbo (c. 47 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Benedetto del Tronto (c. 45 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ascoli Piceno (c. 41 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km NW of Cascia, Italy.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 12.9672° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.7654° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NW of Cascia, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-30 08:36:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-30 08:56:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 340 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 0.398 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us1000731w Id of event.
Event Code 1000731w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000731w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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