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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 2 km NW of Prazzo Superiore, Italy


Earthquake location 44.494S, 7.0343WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Prazzo Superiore in Italy. Unique identifier: us7000nx9v. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nx9v. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 7.0343° East, 44.494° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/12/24 / 2024-12-09 10:41:23 / December 9, 2024 @ 10:41 am. The temblor was reported at 10:41:23 / 10:41 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Turin (c. 870 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Moncalieri (c. 49 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Nichelino (c. 47 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Collegno (c. 46 500 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Cuneo (c. 46 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Rivoli (c. 46 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Beausoleil, Menton, Borgaro Torinese (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 2 km NW of Prazzo Superiore, Italy.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 7.0343° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.494° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km NW of Prazzo Superiore, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-09 10:41:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-09 11:24:08 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 234 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.879 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000nx9v Id of event.
Event Code 7000nx9v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nx9v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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