Earthquake Costa Siciliana nord-orientale (Messina), Magnitude ML 1.3, 19 October 2022 time 08:50:36 (Timezone UTC)

A magnitude ML 1.3 (explosion) earthquake occured in region: Costa Siciliana nord orientale (Messina), on

19-10-2022 08:50:36 (UTC)
19-10-2022 10:50:36 (UTC +02:00) Italian time

and geographic coordinates (lat, lon) 38.1650, 14.9960 at 0 km depth.

The earthquake was located by: Bollettino Sismico Italiano INGV.

Event type: explosion.

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The values of hypocentral coordinates and magnitude may be revised at a later time as more information becomes available.

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Municipalities within 20 km from the epicenter

Distances are determinated based on the geographic coordintes of the (Istat).

Municipality	Region	Distance (km)	Inhabitants	Cumulative Inhabitants
Patti	ME	4	13431	13431
Montagnareale	ME	5	1615	15046
Oliveri	ME	7	2181	17227
Librizzi	ME	8	1660	18887
Gioiosa Marea	ME	9	7074	25961
Falcone	ME	9	2808	28769
Sant'Angelo di Brolo	ME	11	3090	31859
Piraino	ME	12	3962	35821
Basicò	ME	13	612	36433
San Piero Patti	ME	13	2915	39348
Furnari	ME	13	3784	43132
Raccuja	ME	14	1041	44173
Brolo	ME	15	5783	49956
Mazzarrà Sant'Andrea	ME	15	1531	51487
Terme Vigliatore	ME	15	7395	58882
Tripi	ME	16	873	59755
Montalbano Elicona	ME	16	2287	62042
Sinagra	ME	16	2705	64747
Ficarra	ME	16	1469	66216
Rodì Milici	ME	16	2056	68272
Ucria	ME	17	1058	69330
Castell'Umberto	ME	19	3128	72458
Naso	ME	19	3813	76271
Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto	ME	20	41583	117854

Municipalities with at least 50000 inhabitants

An earthquake occurred to

49 Km W of Messina (238439 inhabitants)

57 Km W of Reggio di Calabria (183035 inhabitants)

63 Km N of Acireale (52622 inhabitants)

74 Km N of Catania (314555 inhabitants)

Recent and historical seismicity

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Seismic hazard

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Shakemap

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Felt maps

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Locations history

Type	Magnitude	Date and Time (UTC)	Latitude	Longitude	Depth (km)	Published time (UTC)	Author	Location ID
Bulletin Rev1000	ML 1.3	2022-10-19 08:50:36	38.1647	14.9962	1	2024-03-01 15:28:23	Bollettino Sismico Italiano INGV	117376601
Reviewed Rev100	ML 2.1	2022-10-19 08:50:28	38.1162	14.9053	85	2022-10-19 09:04:09	Sala Sismica INGV-Roma	110966461

Preferred location and magnitude until now.

Origin information

Origin

Field	Value
Time (UTC)	2022-10-19 08:50:36 ± 0.08
Latitude	38.1647 ± 0.0045
Longitude	14.9962 ± 0.0069
Depth (km)	1 (operator assigned)
Evaluation mode of Origin	manual
Evaluation status of Origin	reviewed
Version	1000 -> BULLETIN-INGV
Event type	explosion
Origin ID	117376601

Uncertainty

Field	Value
Preferred uncertainty description	uncertainty ellipse
Semi-major axis of confidence ellipse (meter)	630
Semi-minor axis of confidence ellipse (meter)	460
Azimuth of major axis of confidence ellipse. Measured clockwise from South-North direction at epicenter (gradi)	277
Circular confidence region, given by single value of horizontal uncertainty (meter)	630.0
Confidence level of the uncertainty (%)	68

Quality

Field	Value
Largest azimuthal gap in station distribution as seen from epicenter (degree)	102
Number of associated phases, regardless of their use for origin computation	14
Number of defining phases	14
RMS of the travel time residuals of the arrivals used for the origin computation (sec)	0.23
Epicentral distance of station closest to the epicenter (degree)	0.09713
Epicentral distance of station farthest from the epicenter (degree)	0.41459
Number of stations at which the event was observed	14
Number of stations from which data was used for origin computation	14

Magnitudes information

ML:2.1

Field	Value
Value	2.1
Uncertainty	0.5
Num. used stations	20
Type of magnitude	ML
Reference to an origin	110966461
Agency	INGV
Autore	Sala Sismica INGV-Roma
Time of creation (UTC)	2022-10-19 09:04:09

ML:1.3

Field	Value
Value	1.3
Uncertainty	0.4
Num. used stations	20
Type of magnitude	ML
Reference to an origin	117376601
Agency	INGV
Autore	Bollettino Sismico Italiano INGV
Time of creation (UTC)	2023-05-15 10:31:26

Picking and Arrival

SCNL	Time	Uncertainty	Polarity	Evaluation_mode	Phase	Azimuth	Distance(km)	Takeoff_angle	Residual	Weight
IV.MSRU.HHZ.	2022-10-19T08:50:44.69	0.3	undecidable	manual	P	76	46.0206	91	-0.68	59
IV.MSFR.HHZ.	2022-10-19T08:50:43.35	0.6	undecidable	manual	P	248	38.1285	91	-0.46	43
IV.MPNC.HHZ.	2022-10-19T08:50:42.46	0.3	undecidable	manual	P	94	31.1466	91	0.06	72
IV.AIO.HHZ.	2022-10-19T08:50:42.36	0.1	undecidable	manual	P	136	29.8479	91	0.23	92
IV.IVGP.HHZ.	2022-10-19T08:50:41.37	0.3	undecidable	manual	P	353	25.9518	91	0.02	73
IV.IVUG.HHZ.	2022-10-19T08:50:41.16	0.3	undecidable	manual	P	358	25.6521	91	-0.14	71
IV.MILZ.HHZ.	2022-10-19T08:50:41.03	0.3	undecidable	manual	P	60	23.6541	91	0.13	72
3D.OEM4.HHZ.	2022-10-19T08:50:41.77	0.3	undecidable	manual	P	350	27.5502	91	0.09	72
IV.IVPL.HHZ.	2022-10-19T08:50:41.27	0.3	undecidable	manual	P	357	23.5542	91	0.4	68
IV.IVCR.HHZ.	2022-10-19T08:50:41.49	0.3	undecidable	manual	P	354	27.3504	91	-0.14	71
IV.IVLT.HHZ.	2022-10-19T08:50:41.44	0.1	undecidable	manual	P	351	26.0517	91	0.07	96
3D.OEM9.HNZ.	2022-10-19T08:50:41.08	0.3	undecidable	manual	P	359	24.753	91	-0.04	73
IV.MUCR.HHZ.	2022-10-19T08:50:39.66	0.1	undecidable	manual	P	218	17.1717	92	0.06	98
IV.LIBRI.HHZ.	2022-10-19T08:50:38.32	0.1	undecidable	manual	P	213	10.7781	93	0.01	100

Station Magnitude and Amplitude

SCNL	mag	Generic_amplitude	Period	Type	Category	Unit	Time_window_reference
IV.LIBRI.HNE.	ML:1.4	0.0004416108	0.0768	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:39.03
IV.LIBRI.HHE.	ML:0.9	0.00013151175	0.1408	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:39.14
IV.MUCR.HHE.	ML:1.1	0.000118161695	0.1792	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:40.50
IV.MUCR.HHN.	ML:1.4	0.000223	0.36	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:41.39
IV.AIO.HHE.	ML:1.1	0.000063185535	0.6816	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:41.51
IV.LIBRI.HHN.	ML:1.0	0.0001666242	0.3008	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:42.18
IV.LIBRI.HNN.	ML:1.5	0.0005715	0.2	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:42.37
IV.AIO.HHN.	ML:1.2	0.000073425935	0.3008	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:43.18
IV.MSFR.HHE.	ML:1.0	0.00003307774	0.5184	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:46.08
IV.MSRU.HHN.	ML:1.6	0.000102763285	0.4032	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:46.73
IV.MPNC.HHE.	ML:1.5	0.00016027704999999997	0.3392	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:49.30
IV.MPNC.HHN.	ML:1.4	0.00012105675	0.3584	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:49.23
IV.MSFR.HHN.	ML:0.8	0.000025349685	0.2816	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:50.24
IV.IVPL.HNE.	ML:2.2	0.0010483278	0.096	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:51.47
IV.IVPL.HHE.	ML:2.2	0.00113381	0.096	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:51.53
IV.CSLB.HHE.	ML:0.9	0.000009972894999999999	1.3984	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:52.23
IV.IVPL.HNN.	ML:2.4	0.001633624	0.2944	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:55.34
IV.IVPL.HHN.	ML:2.4	0.00173	0.3	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:55.36
IV.MSRU.HHE.	ML:1.7	0.0001574443	0.9824	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:50:57.99
IV.CSLB.HHN.	ML:1.1	0.000013400536500000001	1.52	AML	other	m	2022-10-19T08:51:25.94

TDMT - Time Domain Moment Tensor

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Fault Plane solutions in the area

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Waveforms	Seismic signals in miniseed + resp format	Download

Earthquake (explosion) with magnitude of ML 1.3 on date 19-10-2022 and time 08:50:36 (UTC) in region Costa Siciliana nord orientale (Messina)

Municipalities within 20 km from the epicenter

Municipalities with at least 50000 inhabitants

Origin

Uncertainty

Quality

ML:2.1

ML:1.3