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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 2 km NNW of Misterbianco, Italy

Posted by admin on October 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.5412S, 15.022WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Misterbianco in Italy on Saturday. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:34:20 / 1:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 15.022 East, latitude 37.5412 North, depth = 7.74 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/10/18 / 2018-10-06 00:34:20 / October 6, 2018 @ 12:34 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h7ya. Id of event: us1000h7ya. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.74 km (5 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ravanusa, Villa San Giovanni, Sommatino. Epicenter of the earthquake was 7 km (4 miles) from Catania (c. 290 900 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Messina (c. 219 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Reggio Calabria (c. 169 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Siracusa (c. 97 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Gela (c. 73 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ragusa (c. 61 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Caltanissetta (c. 56 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 2 km NNW of Misterbianco, Italy.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 15.022° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.5412° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km NNW of Misterbianco, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-06 00:34:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-06 01:06:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 327 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 0.614 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000h7ya Id of event.
Event Code 1000h7ya An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h7ya, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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