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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Favignana in Italy

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Favignana in Italy. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.466 km (5 miles). Global time and date of event 26/08/25 / 2025-08-26 04:07:07 / August 26, 2025 @ 4:07 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 04:07:07 / 4:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 7.466 km, 11.6558° East, 38.2803° North. Unique identifier: us7000qqyn. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qqyn.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Petrosino, Valderice, Marsala. The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Marsala (c. 77 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Trapani (c. 58 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Casa Santa (c. 23 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Paceco (c. 9 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Valderice (c. 6 800 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Petrosino (c. 6 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Italy (c. 60 340 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 70 km WNW of Favignana, Italy.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	11.6558° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.2803° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.466 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	70 km WNW of Favignana, Italy	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-26 04:07:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-26 04:19:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	354	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	55	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.283	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	53	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000qqyn	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qqyn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qqyn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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