Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Norcia in Italy


Earthquake location 42.7266S, 13.1553WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Norcia in Italy. Unique identifier: us1000731p. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000731p. The epicenter was 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). The temblor was reported at 08:13:06 / 8:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 13.1553 East, latitude 42.7266 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/10/16 / 2016-10-30 07:13:06 / October 30, 2016 @ 7:13 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Perugia (c. 120 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Pescara (c. 116 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Terni (c. 97 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Guidonia Montecelio (c. 67 500 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Foligno (c. 47 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Viterbo (c. 47 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Villalba, Santa Lucia, Tor Lupara (min 5000 pop).

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

Did you feel the quake?

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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km SSE of Norcia, Italy. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2016 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 13.1553° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.7266° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSE of Norcia, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-30 07:13:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-30 08:23:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 285 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 0.267 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us1000731p Id of event.
Event Code 1000731p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000731p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply