Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Bagnoli in Italy

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Bagnoli in Italy on Sunday. Id of earthquake: us7000pe5u. Event ids that are associated: us7000pe5u. Exact location, longitude 14.1411° East, latitude 40.8118° North, depth = 10 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:19:52 / 11:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/02/25 / 2025-02-16 23:19:52 / February 16, 2025 @ 11:19 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 10 km (6 miles) from Napoli (c. 959 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Salerno (c. 125 800 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Torre del Greco (c. 85 900 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Giugliano in Campania (c. 80 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Caserta (c. 72 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Olevano sul Tusciano, Battipaglia, Venafro.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. 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: 2 km W of Bagnoli, Italy.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	14.1411° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.8118° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km W of Bagnoli, 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 23:19:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-17 06:29:37	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	130	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.39	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	129	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	us7000pe5u	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pe5u	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pe5u,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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