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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Trasaghis in Italy


Earthquake location 46.2775S, 13.0793WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Trasaghis in Italy. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.46 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/08/18 / 2018-08-11 03:30:39 / August 11, 2018 @ 3:30 am. 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: us1000g6rp. Id of event: us1000g6rp. Exact location of earthquake, 13.0793° East, 46.2775° North, depth 4.46 km. The temblor was detected at 04:30:39 / 4:30 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bad Gastein, Ponzano, Silea. Country/countries that might be effected, Austria (c. 8 205 000 pop), Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop). Event epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from Trieste (c. 187 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Udine (c. 97 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Villach (c. 58 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Pordenone (c. 49 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Gorizia (c. 34 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Donà di Piave (c. 32 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 0 km ESE of Trasaghis, Italy. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 13.0793° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 46.2775° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km ESE of Trasaghis, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-11 03:30:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-11 03:46:12 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 271 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 0.256 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us1000g6rp Id of event.
Event Code 1000g6rp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g6rp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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