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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Parenti in Italy


Earthquake location 39.2058S, 16.4246WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Parenti in Italy. The temblor was picked up at 23:54:54 / 11:54 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000nuuw. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nuuw. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/11/24 / 2024-11-28 23:54:54 / November 28, 2024 @ 11:54 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 16.4246° East, 39.2058° North.

Country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Catanzaro (c. 79 000 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Lamezia Terme (c. 70 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Cosenza (c. 63 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Nicastro-Sambiase (c. 55 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Crotone (c. 48 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Rossano Stazione (c. 23 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cinque Frondi, Rosarno, Scalea (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 two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km NNE of Parenti, Italy. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 16.4246° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 39.2058° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km NNE of Parenti, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-28 23:54:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-29 00:12:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 284 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 73 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.917 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us7000nuuw Id of event.
Event Code 7000nuuw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nuuw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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