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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 11 km ESE of Crotone, Italy

Posted by admin on April 3, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 39.053S, 17.2439WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Crotone in Italy on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:52:03 / 4:52 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 03/04/20 / 2020-04-03 03:52:03 / April 3, 2020 @ 3:52 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 17.2439 East, latitude 39.053 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008mad. Unique identifier: us70008mad.

Event epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Catanzaro (c. 79 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Lamezia Terme (c. 70 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Cosenza (c. 63 900 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Nicastro-Sambiase (c. 55 700 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Crotone (c. 48 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Rossano Stazione (c. 23 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Andreotta, Quattromiglia, Marina di Schiavonea (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 11 km ESE of Crotone, Italy.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 17.2439° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.053° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km ESE of Crotone, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-03 03:52:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-03 04:17:16 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 271 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 0.398 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us70008mad Id of event.
Event Code 70008mad An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008mad, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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