A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Casole d’Elsa in Italy. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/05/18 / 2018-05-01 05:16:59 / May 1, 2018 @ 5:16 am. The temblor was detected at 06:16:59 / 6:16 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dv6w. Id of event: us1000dv6w. Exact location, longitude 11.0429° East, latitude 43.2477° North, depth = 10 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Castiglione del Lago, Lucca, Vaiano (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Florence (c. 349 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Prato (c. 181 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Livorno (c. 153 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Lucca (c. 81 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Pisa (c. 77 000 pop). Close country/countries, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 10 km S of Casole d’Elsa, Italy.
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