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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Greve in Italy


Earthquake location 43.5584S, 11.2532WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Greve in Italy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003j3q. Id of event: us20003j3q. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:04:35 / 3:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/09/15 / 2015-09-13 01:04:35 / September 13, 2015 @ 1:04 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.96 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 11.2532 East, latitude 43.5584 North, depth = 3.96 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pianoro, Pavullo nel Frignano, Umbertide. The epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Florence (c. 349 300 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Prato (c. 181 800 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Livorno (c. 153 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Lucca (c. 81 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Pisa (c. 77 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Arezzo (c. 76 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light 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 two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

Questions or comments?

How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km WSW of Greve, Italy. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 11.2532° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.5584° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km WSW of Greve, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-13 01:04:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-13 01:44:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 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 273 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 0.817 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20003j3q Id of event.
Event Code 20003j3q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003j3q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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