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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Pieve Torina in Italy


Earthquake location 43.0142S, 12.9988WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Pieve Torina in Italy. Exact location, longitude 12.9988° East, latitude 43.0142° North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us100073v1. Event ids that are associated: us100073v1. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). 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: 03/11/16 / 2016-11-03 00:35:02 / November 3, 2016 @ 12:35 am. The temblor was detected at 01:35:02 / 1:35 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 51 km (32 miles) from Perugia (c. 120 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Terni (c. 97 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Ancona (c. 90 000 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Pesaro (c. 77 200 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Arezzo (c. 76 300 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Foligno (c. 47 700 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Viterbo (c. 47 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Morlupo, Sinalunga, Morciano di Romagna (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 4 km SW of Pieve Torina, Italy.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 12.9988° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.0142° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SW of Pieve Torina, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-03 00:35:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-03 01:05:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 19 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.2 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 393 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 0.199 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us100073v1 Id of event.
Event Code 100073v1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100073v1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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