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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Novellara in Italy

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Novellara in Italy. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 19.61 km (12 miles). Exact location, longitude 10.691° East, latitude 44.8578° North, depth = 19.61 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gea2. Id of event: us1000gea2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/08/18 / 2018-08-21 00:33:46 / August 21, 2018 @ 12:33 am. The temblor was reported at 01:33:46 / 1:33 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Castrezzato, Piazza, Montecchio Maggiore-Alte Ceccato (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop). The epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Bologna (c. 366 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Verona (c. 219 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Brescia (c. 184 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Modena (c. 158 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Parma (c. 146 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Reggio nell’Emilia (c. 133 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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: 3 km WNW of Novellara, Italy.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	10.691° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.8578° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km WNW of Novellara, Italy	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-21 00:33:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-21 01:40:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	60	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	0.285	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	41	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	us1000gea2	Id of event.
Event Code	1000gea2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000gea2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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