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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Cascia in Italy

Posted by admin on August 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.7545S, 13.0332WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Cascia in Italy. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/08/16 / 2016-08-24 04:06:53 / August 24, 2016 @ 4:06 am. The temblor was reported at 06:06:53 / 6:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 13.0332° East, latitude 42.7545° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10006g8k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006g8k.

Nearby country/countries, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Camerano, Luco dei Marsi, Cesano (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Perugia (c. 120 100 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Terni (c. 97 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Guidonia Montecelio (c. 67 500 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Foligno (c. 47 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Viterbo (c. 47 100 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Montesilvano Marina (c. 46 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Benedetto del Tronto (c. 45 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km NNE of Cascia, Italy.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 13.0332° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.7545° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NNE of Cascia, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-24 04:06:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-24 04:21:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 312 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 0.485 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10006g8k Id of event.
Event Code 10006g8k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006g8k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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