Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Nadur in Malta

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Nadur in Malta. Unique identifier: us70005sc2. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005sc2. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/10/19 / 2019-10-08 20:24:07 / October 8, 2019 @ 8:24 pm. Exact location, longitude 14.3071° East, latitude 36.1272° North, depth = 10 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:24:07 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop), Malta (c. 403 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Scicli, Santa Croce Camerina, Birżebbuġa (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Birkirkara (c. 21 700 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Qormi (c. 18 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Mosta (c. 17 800 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Scicli (c. 16 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Żabbar (c. 15 000 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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: 9 km N of Nadur, Malta. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	14.3071° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.1272° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km N of Nadur, Malta	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-10-08 20:24:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-08 22:07:55	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	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	168	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	0.338	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	117	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us70005sc2	Id of event.
Event Code	70005sc2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005sc2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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