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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Sellano in Italy

Posted by admin on December 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.8708S, 13.0205WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Sellano in Italy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 13.0205 East, latitude 42.8708 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007zyp. Unique identifier: us20007zyp. The temblor was picked up at 13:54:54 / 1:54 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/12/16 / 2016-12-11 12:54:54 / December 11, 2016 @ 12:54 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guidonia, Guidonia Montecelio, Castel Madama (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Perugia (c. 120 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Terni (c. 97 100 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Ancona (c. 90 000 pop), 101 km (62 miles) from Guidonia Montecelio (c. 67 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Foligno (c. 47 700 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Viterbo (c. 47 100 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Montesilvano Marina (c. 46 000 pop).

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

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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. 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 ESE of Sellano, Italy.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 13.0205° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.8708° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km ESE of Sellano, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-11 12:54:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-11 13:11:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 354 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 0.172 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us20007zyp Id of event.
Event Code 20007zyp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007zyp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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