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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near southern Italy


Earthquake location 41.8554S, 14.8421WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, southern Italy kilometers (0 miles) from southern Italy. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:19:05 / 6:19 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.34 km (8 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/08/18 / 2018-08-16 18:19:05 / August 16, 2018 @ 6:19 pm. Exact location of event, depth 12.34 km, 14.8421° East, 41.8554° North. Id of earthquake: us1000gaq7. Event ids that are associated: us1000gaq7.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Saviano, Trasacco, Marigliano (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Foggia (c. 137 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Pescara (c. 116 600 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Caserta (c. 72 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from San Severo (c. 54 900 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Acerra (c. 53 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Manfredonia (c. 52 900 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Benevento (c. 48 900 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: southern Italy. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 14.8421° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.8554° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place southern 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 18:19:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-16 18:34:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 435 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 0.681 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.17 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 mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000gaq7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000gaq7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gaq7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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