Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Procida in Italy

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Procida in Italy. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pz15. Unique identifier: us6000pz15. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/03/25 / 2025-03-15 12:32:26 / March 15, 2025 @ 12:32 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 12:32:26 / 12:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 14.0239 East, latitude 40.7197 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Giorgio del Sannio, Bellizzi, Benevento. Epicenter of the event was 24 km (15 miles) from Napoli (c. 959 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Salerno (c. 125 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Torre del Greco (c. 85 900 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Giugliano in Campania (c. 80 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Caserta (c. 72 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km S of Procida, Italy.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	14.0239° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.7197° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 km S of Procida, Italy	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-15 12:32:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-15 12:49:42	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	3.1	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	158	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.294	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	135	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	us6000pz15	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pz15	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pz15,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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