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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Ravenna in Italy

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Ravenna in Italy. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000j3y5. Event ids that are associated: us2000j3y5. Exact location, longitude 12.2977° East, latitude 44.4239° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:03:56 / 12:03 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/01/19 / 2019-01-14 23:03:56 / January 14, 2019 @ 11:03 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (48 miles) from Bologna (c. 366 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Rimini (c. 118 700 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Forlì (c. 93 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ferrara (c. 92 800 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Ravenna (c. 80 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Cesena (c. 79 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Pesaro (c. 77 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monselice, Piove di Sacco-Piovega, Badia Polesine.

Every 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. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 7 km E of Ravenna, Italy.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	12.2977° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	44.4239° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km E of Ravenna, Italy	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-01-14 23:03:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-01-14 23:44:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	60	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	341	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	1.177	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	22	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	us2000j3y5	Id of event.
Event Code	2000j3y5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000j3y5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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