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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Noverasco-Sporting Mirasole in Italy

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Noverasco-Sporting Mirasole in Italy. Global time and date of event 17/12/20 / 2020-12-17 15:59:19 / December 17, 2020 @ 3:59 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 9.1986° East, 45.4° North. Id of earthquake: us7000cru1. Event ids that are associated: us7000cru1. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 15:59:19 / 3:59 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop). Event epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) from Milano (c. 1 236 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Brescia (c. 184 800 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Monza (c. 119 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Bergamo (c. 114 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Novara (c. 93 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Piacenza (c. 93 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ascona, Crescentino, Salsomaggiore Terme (min 5000 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km WNW of Noverasco-Sporting Mirasole, Italy. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	9.1986° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	45.4° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km WNW of Noverasco-Sporting Mirasole, Italy	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-17 15:59:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-17 21:57:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	247	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	1.077	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	us7000cru1	Id of event.
Event Code	7000cru1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000cru1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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