M2.0 earthquake 10 km WSW of Staffa, Italy
A magnitude 2.0 earthquake struck 10 km WSW of Staffa, Italy on Wed, Jul 31, 2002, 4:48 AM GMT+2 (02:48 UTC), 2 km (1 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M3.0 2 km N of Rima, Italy. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 2.0 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2002-07-31 02:48:29 UTC
- Depth
- 2.1 km (1.3 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 45.949° N, 7.840° E
- Region
- Italy
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Stations used
- 7
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 20 in the 60 days after this one and 11 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.58 km WSW of Staffa, Italy · 8828 days ago · 5 km deep · 1 km away
- 2.53 km SE of Staffa, Italy · 8827 days ago · 11 km deep · 12 km away
- 2.32 km WSW of Cantoira, Italy · 8823 days ago · 5 km deep · 78 km away
- 2.110 km SSE of Val-d'Isère, France · 8818 days ago · 3 km deep · 91 km away
- 3.02 km N of Rima, Italy · 8818 days ago · 8 km deep · 13 km away
- 2.04 km E of Grindelwald, Switzerland · 8816 days ago · 2 km deep · 78 km away
- 1.62 km ESE of La Cassa, Italy · 8815 days ago · 2 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.14 km WSW of Staffa, Italy · 8813 days ago · 2 km deep · 5 km away
- 2.89 km ESE of Meiringen, Switzerland · 8810 days ago · 0 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.33 km SSE of Staffa, Italy · 8808 days ago · 11 km deep · 11 km away
- 2.25 km SSW of Staffa, Italy · 8807 days ago · 2 km deep · 7 km away
- 1.56 km NW of Staffa, Italy · 8802 days ago · 9 km deep · 7 km away
- 2.51 km ESE of Villeneuve, Italy · 8793 days ago · 5 km deep · 56 km away
- 2.13 km SW of Gressoney-Saint-Jean, Italy · 8787 days ago · 0 km deep · 23 km away
- 2.51 km WNW of Carcoforo, Italy · 8784 days ago · 8 km deep · 15 km away
- 2.86 km NW of Staffa, Italy · 8784 days ago · 3 km deep · 7 km away
- 2.79 km SSW of Martigny-Combe, Switzerland · 8779 days ago · 4 km deep · 65 km away
- 2.57 km W of Staffa, Italy · 8778 days ago · 4 km deep · 3 km away
- 2.13 km SSW of Avise, Italy · 8774 days ago · 4 km deep · 63 km away
- 2.72 km N of Sankt Niklaus, Switzerland · 8771 days ago · 5 km deep · 28 km away
Before
- 2.06 km NW of Château-d'Oex, Switzerland · 8833 days ago · 2 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.95 km S of Oberschrot, Switzerland · 8834 days ago · 8 km deep · 93 km away
- 2.19 km SE of Zermatt, Switzerland · 8843 days ago · 2 km deep · 1 km away
- 1.82 km WSW of Staffa, Italy · 8847 days ago · 9 km deep · 7 km away
- 2.07 km WNW of Staffa, Italy · 8849 days ago · 4 km deep · 6 km away
- 2.48 km WSW of Staffa, Italy · 8851 days ago · 2 km deep · 2 km away
- 1.94 km SW of Staffa, Italy · 8851 days ago · 7 km deep · 7 km away
- 1.93 km S of Gressoney-Saint-Jean, Italy · 8853 days ago · 3 km deep · 23 km away
- 1.84 km NNW of Rima, Italy · 8853 days ago · 2 km deep · 10 km away
- 2.02 km SW of San Mauro Torinese, Italy · 8854 days ago · 2 km deep · 96 km away
- 2.23 km W of Varisella, Italy · 8859 days ago · 9 km deep · 88 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000b928. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 4:07 PM UTC.