Moderate mag. 4.0 earthquake - 1 km north of Norcia, Perugia, Umbria, Italy, on Thursday, 27 October 2016 at 01:37 (GMT)

This quake was likely an aftershock of the 6.1 quake 5.1 km north of Pieve, Provincia di Macerata, The Marches, Italy, 26 October 2016 19:18 GMT, which had occurred 6 hours earlier.
Moderate mag. 4.0 earthquake - 1 km north of Norcia, Perugia, Umbria, Italy, on Thursday, 27 October 2016 at 01:37 (GMT)

Moderate magnitude 4.0 earthquake at 10 km depth

27 Oct 01:42 UTC: First to report: GFZ after 5 minutes.
Date & time: 27 Oct 2016 01:37:07 UTC
Magnitude: 4
Depth: 10.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 42.8°N / 13.1°E (Perugia, Umbria, Italy)
Nearest volcano: Vulsini (99 km / 62 mi)
Nearby towns and cities:
1 km (1 mi) NNE of Norcia (pop: 2,960) --> See nearby quakes!
30 km (19 mi) ENE of Spoleto (Provincia di Perugia) (pop: 19,300) --> See nearby quakes!
37 km (23 mi) ESE of Foligno (pop: 47,700) --> See nearby quakes!
39 km (24 mi) W of Ascoli Piceno (The Marches) (pop: 41,700) --> See nearby quakes!
46 km (28 mi) NE of Terni (pop: 97,100) --> See nearby quakes!
48 km (30 mi) NNE of Rieti (Latium) (pop: 39,100) --> See nearby quakes!
51 km (32 mi) WNW of Teramo (Abruzzo) (pop: 36,100) --> See nearby quakes!
54 km (33 mi) ESE of Bastia umbra (Provincia di Perugia) (pop: 17,800) --> See nearby quakes!
68 km (42 mi) ESE of Perugia (pop: 120,100) --> See nearby quakes!
112 km (70 mi) NNE of Rome (Latium) (pop: 2,318,900) --> See nearby quakes!
Primary data source: GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences)
Estimated released energy: 6.3 x 1010 joules (17.5 megawatt hours, equivalent to 15.1 tons of TNT) More info
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Data for the same earthquake reported by different agencies

Info: The more agencies report about the same quake and post similar data, the more confidence you can have in the data. It takes normally up to a few hours until earthquake parameters are calculated with near-optimum precision.
MagnitudeDepthLocationSource
M 4.010 kmCentral ItalyGFZ
M 4.05 km4.0 CENTRAL ITALYEMSC
M 3.58.3 kmMacerataINGV

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Chiaravalle (91.7 km NNE of epicenter) [Map] / Very strong shaking (MMI VII) (reported through our app)
89.4 km N of epicenter [Map] / Light shaking (MMI IV) (reported through our app)
Roma via del casaletto (103.1 km S of epicenter) [Map] / not felt : Dormivo (reported through our app)
Urbino (Italy, 109 km NW of epicenter) : made my bed shake and the light shake quickly. (reported through EMSC)
Mozzano (Italy, 40 km E of epicenter) : Appena Percettibile (reported through EMSC)
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