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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Anacapri in Italy

Posted by admin on December 16, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 40.3623S, 13.9879WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Anacapri in Italy. Unique identifier: us1000hxhn. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hxhn. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 13.9879 East, latitude 40.3623 North, depth = 386.04 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:35:14 / 8:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/11/18 / 2018-11-22 07:35:14 / November 22, 2018 @ 7:35 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 386.04 km (240 miles).

Close country/countries, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Napoli (c. 959 500 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Salerno (c. 125 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Torre del Greco (c. 85 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Giugliano in Campania (c. 80 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Caserta (c. 72 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Castellammare di Stabia (c. 65 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cervinara, Giffoni Valle Piana, Mercato (min 5000 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 28 km SW of Anacapri, Italy.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 13.9879° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 40.3623° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 386.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km SW of Anacapri, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-22 07:35:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-16 12:18:07 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 1.447 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us1000hxhn Id of event.
Event Code 1000hxhn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hxhn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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