Moderate earthquake: M5.4 quake has struck near Visso in Italy

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Visso in Italy. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/10/16 / 2016-10-26 17:10:37 / October 26, 2016 @ 5:10 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007guy. Unique identifier: us20007guy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 13.0556 East, latitude 42.8655 North, depth = 10 km. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:10:37 / 7:10 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Corcolle, Tuscania, Foiano della Chiana (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop). The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Perugia (c. 120 100 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Pescara (c. 116 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Terni (c. 97 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Ancona (c. 90 000 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Guidonia Montecelio (c. 67 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Foligno (c. 47 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Viterbo (c. 47 100 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 7 km SSW of Visso, Italy.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	13.0556° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	42.8655° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km SSW of Visso, Italy	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-10-26 17:10:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-26 17:28:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	47	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.6	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	470	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	0.053	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	32	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	us20007guy	Id of event.
Event Code	20007guy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20007guy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.4 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

13.0556° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

42.8655° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

7km SSW of Visso, Italy

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2016-10-26 17:10:37

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-10-26 17:28:54

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

120

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

4.6

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

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

470

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.053

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.11 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

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us20007guy

Id of event.

Event Code

20007guy

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us20007guy,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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