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Strong earthquake, 6.6 mag strikes near Norcia in Italy

Posted by admin on October 30, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.8558S, 13.0887WA earthquake magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Norcia in Italy on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, 13.0887° East, 42.8558° North, depth 1.47 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000731j. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000731j. The temblor was detected at 08:40:17 / 8:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/10/16 / 2016-10-30 06:40:17 / October 30, 2016 @ 6:40 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.47 km (1 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Marinella, Velletri, Sora (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 117 km (73 miles) from Rome (c. 2 318 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Perugia (c. 120 100 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Pescara (c. 116 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Terni (c. 97 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Ancona (c. 90 000 pop), 117 km (73 miles) from Pesaro (c. 77 200 pop), 119 km (74 miles) from Arezzo (c. 76 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Guidonia Montecelio (c. 67 500 pop), 134 km (84 miles) from Velletri (c. 48 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km N of Norcia, Italy. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 13.0887° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.8558° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km N 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 06:40:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-30 07:02:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 92 The total number of felt reports
CDI 7.3 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 737 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 0.18 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000731j Id of event.
Event Code 1000731j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000731j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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