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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Viareggio in Italy


Earthquake location 43.86S, 10.0726WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Viareggio in Italy. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:22:54 / 11:22 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 07/06/19 / 2019-06-07 10:22:54 / June 7, 2019 @ 10:22 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 10.0726 East, latitude 43.86 North, depth = 9.44 km. Event id: us70003wn8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003wn8. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.44 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby 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 Montelupo Fiorentino, Seano, Montale. Epicenter of the event was 41 km (25 miles) from Livorno (c. 153 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from La Spezia (c. 88 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Lucca (c. 81 700 pop), 31 km (20 miles) from Pisa (c. 77 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Pistoia (c. 73 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days 0 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 14 km W of Viareggio, Italy.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 10.0726° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.86° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km W of Viareggio, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-07 10:22:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-08 12:01:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 130 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 0.606 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 110 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70003wn8 Id of event.
Event Code 70003wn8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003wn8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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