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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Ennenda in Switzerland


Earthquake location 47.0135S, 9.1981WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Ennenda in Switzerland. The temblor was picked up at 19:35:45 / 7:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, 9.1981° East, 47.0135° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global time and date of event 25/10/20 / 2020-10-25 19:35:45 / October 25, 2020 @ 7:35 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000cd1u. Id of event: us6000cd1u.

Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Zürich (c. 341 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Winterthur (c. 91 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Konstanz (c. 81 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Sankt Gallen (c. 70 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Friedrichshafen (c. 58 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Luzern (c. 57 100 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Zürich (Kreis 11) (c. 54 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Switzerland (c. 7 581 000 pop), Germany (c. 81 802 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aarau, Wutöschingen, Baienfurt.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 9 km ESE of Ennenda, Switzerland.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 9.1981° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 47.0135° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km ESE of Ennenda, Switzerland Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-25 19:35:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-25 20:04:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 315 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 0.551 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us6000cd1u Id of event.
Event Code 6000cd1u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cd1u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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