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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near L’Aquila in Italy

Posted by admin on April 1, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 42.4196S, 13.4689WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from L’Aquila in Italy. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.66 km (5 miles). The temblor was picked up at 02:18:45 / 2:18 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 31/03/18 / 2018-03-31 01:18:45 / March 31, 2018 @ 1:18 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 13.4689 East, latitude 42.4196 North, depth = 7.66 km. Id of earthquake: us1000dbrv. Event ids that are associated: us1000dbrv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (38 miles) from Pescara (c. 116 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Terni (c. 97 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guidonia Montecelio (c. 67 500 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Foligno (c. 47 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Montesilvano Marina (c. 46 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from San Benedetto del Tronto (c. 45 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Segni, Castel di Sangro, Tolentino.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km NE of L’Aquila, Italy. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 13.4689° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.4196° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km NE of L'Aquila, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-31 01:18:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-01 02:38:52 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 246 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 0.124 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us1000dbrv Id of event.
Event Code 1000dbrv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dbrv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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