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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Amatrice in Italy

Posted by admin on January 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.6615S, 13.2163WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Amatrice in Italy. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/01/17 / 2017-01-18 09:25:41 / January 18, 2017 @ 9:25 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 13.2163° East, 42.6615° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us10007twc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007twc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:25:41 / 10:25 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Segni, Tecchiena, Cagli. Epicenter of the event was 103 km (64 miles) from Rome (c. 2 318 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Perugia (c. 120 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Pescara (c. 116 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Terni (c. 97 100 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Ancona (c. 90 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Guidonia Montecelio (c. 67 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Foligno (c. 47 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km WNW of Amatrice, Italy. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 13.2163° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.6615° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km WNW of Amatrice, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-18 09:25:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-18 09:51:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 20 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 440 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 0.189 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 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 us10007twc Id of event.
Event Code 10007twc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007twc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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