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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Forio in Italy

Posted by admin on November 2, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.445S, 13.337WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Forio in Italy. Exact location of event, longitude 13.337 East, latitude 40.445 North, depth = 437.85 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:12:37 / 12:12 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/11/17 / 2017-11-01 23:12:37 / November 1, 2017 @ 11:12 pm UTC/GMT. 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: us2000bf9a. Id of event: us2000bf9a. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 437.85 km (272 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Casal di Principe, San Cipriano d’Aversa, Casapesenna. Country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Napoli (c. 959 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Giugliano in Campania (c. 80 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Marano di Napoli (c. 49 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Pozzuoli (c. 45 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Quarto (c. 37 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Mugnano di Napoli (c. 34 200 pop).

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

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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. 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: 55 km SW of Forio, Italy.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 13.337° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.445° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 437.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km SW of Forio, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-01 23:12:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-02 00:10:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 259 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 1.103 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 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 us2000bf9a Id of event.
Event Code 2000bf9a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bf9a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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