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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Posillipo in Italy

Posted by admin on February 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.7286S, 14.2131WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Posillipo in Italy on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, 14.2131° East, 40.7286° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/02/25 / 2025-02-16 14:30:02 / February 16, 2025 @ 2:30 pm. Unique identifier: us7000pe46. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pe46. The temblor was reported at 14:30:02 / 2:30 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 14 km (9 miles) from Napoli (c. 959 500 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Salerno (c. 125 800 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Torre del Greco (c. 85 900 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Giugliano in Campania (c. 80 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Caserta (c. 72 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Agropoli, Gaeta, Formia (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 14.2131° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.7286° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km S of Posillipo, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-16 14:30:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-16 15:38:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 139 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.303 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 189 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 us7000pe46 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pe46 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pe46, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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