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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Montereale in Italy


Earthquake location 42.5847S, 13.2203WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Montereale in Italy. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007tx9. Id of event: us10007tx9. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 13.2203 East, latitude 42.5847 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:39:24 / 11:39 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/01/17 / 2017-01-18 10:39:24 / January 18, 2017 @ 10:39 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Perugia (c. 120 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Pescara (c. 116 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Terni (c. 97 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guidonia Montecelio (c. 67 500 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Foligno (c. 47 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Viterbo (c. 47 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Viterbo, Cesano, Orvieto (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km NNW of Montereale, Italy. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 13.2203° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.5847° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NNW of Montereale, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-18 10:39:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-18 12:17:01 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 284 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 0.147 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us10007tx9 Id of event.
Event Code 10007tx9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007tx9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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