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Summary:

Magnitude	ML 3.1
Region	NORTHERN ITALY
	Tusco-emilian Apennine
Date time	2009-01-15 at 11:08:14.6 UTC
Location	44.62 N ; 10.39 E
Depth	15 km
Distances	21 km SW Reggio nell'emilia (pop 158,820 ; local time 12:08 2009-01-15) 6 km W Quattro castella (pop 12,413 ; local time 12:08 2009-01-15) 1 km SE Traversetolo (pop 8,726 ; local time 12:08 2009-01-15)
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Maps:


Global view	Regional view	Local view

References for tectonic plate boundaries:
Bird, P. (2003) An updated digital model of plate boundaries,
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 4(3), 1027.

Google maps view: Seismicity from the previous 7 days in the area

Regional instrumental seismicity

This seismicity maps have been generated by concatenating the ISC catalogue (since 1964), the EMSC Euro-Med Bulletin catalogue and the EMSC Real Time catalogue. Therefore, they show the seismicity from 1964 until the earthquake occurrence.

Regional deadly earthquakes from year 1500 to 2000

Date

Long.

Lat.

Mag.

Death

Location

1512	9.0	46.4	?	many	SWITZERLAND
1542-06-13	11.4	44.0	5.9	500	NORTHERN ITALY
1570-11-17	11.6	44.8	5.5	70	NORTHERN ITALY
1584-09-10	12.0	43.9	5.8	196	CENTRAL ITALY
1618-08-25	9.5	46.3	?	1200	SWITZERLAND
1624-03-18	11.9	44.7	5.4	50	NORTHERN ITALY
1661-03-22	11.9	44.0	6.8	400	NORTHERN ITALY
1672-04-14	12.6	43.9	5.7	200	CENTRAL ITALY
1730-03-28	10.3	44.0	5.1	many	NORTHERN ITALY
1768-10-19	11.9	43.9	5.8	54	CENTRAL ITALY
1781-04-04	11.8	44.3	5.8	26	NORTHERN ITALY
1781-06-03	12.6	43.6	6.2	300	CENTRAL ITALY
1781-07-17	12.0	44.3	5.6	26	NORTHERN ITALY
1786-12-25	12.6	44.0	5.7	40	NORTHERN ITALY
1789-09-30	12.2	43.5	5.8	500	CENTRAL ITALY
1846-08-14	10.6	43.5	5.9	60	CENTRAL ITALY
1873-06-29	12.4	46.2	6.3	80	NORTHERN ITALY
1887-02-23	8.0	43.9	6.4	635	LIGURIAN SEA
1919-06-29	11.5	44.0	6.3	100	NORTHERN ITALY
1920-09-07	10.3	44.3	6.3	171	NORTHERN ITALY

Source: T. Utsu ; International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology; vol. A; 691-718

More information at:

Italian National Seismic Network Roma, Italy

List of data providers:

Geophysical Institute, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic , Prague, Czech Republic (GFU)

Italian National Seismic Network, Roma, Italy (INGV)

Laboratoire de Détection et de Géophysique, Bruyères-le-Châtel, France (LDG)

Landesamt fuer Geologie, Rohstoffe und Bergbau, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany (LED)

Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia, Seismological Office, Ljubljana, Slovenia (LJU)

Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale di Trieste, Trieste, Italy (OGS)

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