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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Villar Pellice in Italy


Earthquake location 44.81S, 7.15WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Villar Pellice in Italy on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003hpq. Unique identifier: us20003hpq. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 7.15 East, latitude 44.81 North, depth = 11 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/09/15 / 2015-09-10 07:32:08 / September 10, 2015 @ 7:32 am. The temblor was detected at 09:32:08 / 9:32 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles).

The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Turin (c. 870 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Moncalieri (c. 49 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Nichelino (c. 47 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Collegno (c. 46 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Cuneo (c. 46 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Caluso, Castellamonte, Cuorgnè (min 5000 pop).

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 has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 0 km NW of Villar Pellice, Italy. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 7.15° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.81° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km NW of Villar Pellice, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-10 07:32:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-10 21:10:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 148 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us20003hpq Id of event.
Event Code 20003hpq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003hpq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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