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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 6 km SE of Pieve Torina, Italy


Earthquake location 42.999S, 13.0928WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Pieve Torina in Italy on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 13.0928 East, latitude 42.999 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 22:19:45 / 10:19 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10008ley. Unique identifier: us10008ley. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/04/17 / 2017-04-27 21:19:45 / April 27, 2017 @ 9:19 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Soriano nel Cimino, Camucia-Monsigliolo, Fano. Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Perugia (c. 120 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Terni (c. 97 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ancona (c. 90 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Foligno (c. 47 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from San Benedetto del Tronto (c. 45 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Ascoli Piceno (c. 41 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Rieti (c. 39 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 6 km SE of Pieve Torina, Italy. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 13.0928° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.999° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SE of Pieve Torina, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-27 21:19:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-27 21:47:15 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 2.5 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 312 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 0.037 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us10008ley Id of event.
Event Code 10008ley An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008ley, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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