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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Pieve Torina in Italy


Earthquake location 43.002S, 13.1479WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Pieve Torina in Italy on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100073f9. Id of event: us100073f9. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/11/16 / 2016-11-01 07:56:40 / November 1, 2016 @ 7:56 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 13.1479° East, 43.002° North. The temblor was detected at 08:56:40 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Perugia (c. 120 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Terni (c. 97 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ancona (c. 90 000 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Pesaro (c. 77 200 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Foligno (c. 47 700 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Montesilvano Marina (c. 46 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from San Benedetto del Tronto (c. 45 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pesaro, Fabrica di Roma, Civita Castellana.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km ESE of Pieve Torina, Italy. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 13.1479° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 43.002° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km ESE of Pieve Torina, Italy Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-01 07:56:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-01 08:30:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 370 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 0.056 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us100073f9 Id of event.
Event Code 100073f9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100073f9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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