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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Guardialfiera in Italy

Posted by admin on August 16, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 41.8421S, 14.817WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Guardialfiera in Italy on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us1000gav6. Event ids that are associated: us1000gav6. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.19 km (1 miles). Exact location of event, depth 1.19 km, 14.817° East, 41.8421° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:22:34 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/08/18 / 2018-08-16 20:22:34 / August 16, 2018 @ 8:22 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Foggia (c. 137 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Pescara (c. 116 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Caserta (c. 72 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from San Severo (c. 54 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Manfredonia (c. 52 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Benevento (c. 48 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Montesilvano Marina (c. 46 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Capua, Curti, Monte Sant’Angelo (min 5000 pop).

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

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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 NNE of Guardialfiera, Italy.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 14.817° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8421° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NNE of Guardialfiera, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-16 20:22:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-16 20:50:33 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 312 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 0.698 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 25 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 us1000gav6 Id of event.
Event Code 1000gav6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gav6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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