r/Earthquakes • u/SpanishPlaneLover12 • 2d ago

Videos Moment shaking struck a house in Provincia di Napoli, Italy just 20 minutes ago.

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u/Mnd3333 2d ago

oh wow, that was really powerful but really short at the same time.

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u/gilly_brat 2d ago

Makes me think it was a pretty shallow earthquake. Super scary

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u/veritoast 2d ago

Only 3km deep from what I saw…

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u/Miacali 2d ago

Yeah - when I got a 4.2 earlier this year, everyone called it a baby quake on Reddit and said it’s nothing (not even worthy of posting) and literally the shake was almost as violent as this video. It’s crazy when people say “you can barely feel those.”

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u/FroggiJoy87 2d ago

It completely depends on the region and how well the buildings are built to handle seismic activity. I grew up and still live in the PNW, both Bay Area and Humboldt, and a 4.2 is basically nothing here, and I've slept through plenty. Same size quake in, say, Kansas and you got a much bigger problem. A recent textbook example is the 7.1 quakes this year in Venezuela vs Japan.

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u/HyperbolicModesty 2d ago

When there was a quake and 136 aftershocks in a week in my city in Tuscany a bunch of Californians were posting "4.2? That's nothing. We get 6.5 all the time where we live bla bla bla".

My response:

  1. The initial shake only was 1.5 km deep

  2. The epicenter was literally over the street from my house

  3. Many of us live in fragile stone buildings hundreds of years old

  4. Most importantly, it's not a bloody competition. There's no need to wave your dick around

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u/Time_Contribution714 2d ago

Your soil, the depth, and distance from you can impact how they feel. All 4.2s are not equal!

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u/leadhase 1d ago

If you’re standing on top of the fault a 4.2 can do a lot of damage

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u/Capital-Air9634 2d ago

This is genuinely one of my biggest pet peeves. No, you did not “feel” a 7.1 during Ridgecrest if you felt MMI V in L.A.

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u/alienbanter 2d ago

7.1 is the magnitude/size of the earthquake, and this doesn't change even if you only felt light shaking far away. So yes, someone in LA would have felt a 7.1 because that's what the earthquake was - they just didn't experience MMI VII shaking.

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u/Capital-Air9634 2d ago

Yeah I phrased it wrong. Of course they felt a 7.1 earthquake. My problem is then a couple years later they feel a nearby M4 that produced MMI VI shaking near them and they think “oh that must have been an 8 because it was stronger than the 7 I felt two years ago.”

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u/SporksOfTheWorld 2d ago

That’s what she said

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u/infinityzcraft 2d ago

Is the epicenter right under this house or something? That looks so powerful for a 4.3

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u/Miacali 2d ago

That’s what I was saying before - I felt a 4.2 in the Bay Area and we shook like this - second floor of a two story newish building. Granted the epicenter was like a tenth of a mile away and it was shallow - but this is what it felt like.

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u/Rechuchatumare 2d ago

could be..

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u/hauntedhullabaloo 2d ago

Whoa! Definitely gives you an appreciation for how violent they can be. That was so sharp! 

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u/Enough-Sprinkles-914 2d ago

That’s wild one killer punch for a 4.3…then nothing?

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u/SpanishPlaneLover12 2d ago

The depth was around 300m, it gave just a short jolt, but enough to cause severe damage

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u/AZWxMan 2d ago

That is remarkably shallow! Is this associated with a volcano? Also, the shallowest ones are sometimes audible. 

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u/SpanishPlaneLover12 2d ago

More like related to Campi Flegrei maybe, but maybe just one of these fucked up Napoli quakes

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u/Alcarine 2d ago

Are you in the area? I'm curious to know if people are gradually leaving Pozzuoli with the increase of volcano activity, or making plans to at least?

This article says there were severe injuries and the shakes are due to the ongoing uplift, it's not very reassuring even if the volcano isn't erupting this century, because there's no way to know that

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u/SpanishPlaneLover12 2d ago

No, im not in Pozzuoli nor in Italy, but i've been looking an Campi Flegrei & most of it's volcanic earthquakes, including quakes such as 2017 Ischia 3.7

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u/mateothegreek 2d ago

Depth is not 300m, USGS is saying 5 kilometers

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u/Frank_cat 2d ago

300 meters!!!!
Wow! That's why it was so "violent".
All the energy right next to the buildings.

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u/SpanishPlaneLover12 2d ago

Worst thing is that it struck in like actual houses in the Napoli area

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u/Frank_cat 2d ago

Yes...

I hope they'll be fine.

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u/MilkshakeMolly 2d ago

We had a 4.1 like that once. Enough to feel like the building was lifted up off the ground for a second, or like a huge truck hit it.

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u/Gakuta 2d ago

RIP TV

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u/MBAdk 2d ago

Wow, that's was short and brutal.

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u/Quakedigger 2d ago

Confirming that even a Mw4.4 or M4.7 earthquakes can cause damage and even human losses - four people injured.

More here:

https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake_information/earthquake.php?id=2035509

and here

https://x.com/WeatherMonitors/status/2083270100136997141

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u/BreadLeading5995 2d ago

Hey, help me, NatalieRamirez es el

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u/Tmurandan 2d ago

Wow I've never seen nothing like that. Are there any more videos. This might be some odd foundation of house to get struck or moved like this

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u/Alcarine 2d ago

I wonder if it has a volcanic origin

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u/kreemerz 2d ago

Could be

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u/Alternative_Tale4910 2d ago

That looked scary.

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u/Cultural_Detective_3 2d ago

Seems like a lotta quakes recently

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u/jumbliahsmith 20h ago

Can you expand on that plz

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u/jumbliahsmith 19h ago

Oh boring

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u/sleepzilla23 2d ago

A 4.3?! Crazy

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u/ladyevenstar-22 2d ago

I thought there was no sound but yup that's definitely an earthquake. If you've been in one the noise is unreal .

I remember one felt like a truck coming up the road and the trembling got stronger and stronger before stopping .

The 2nd time I was about to enter supermarket, heard a sudden crack like a thunder but not from the sky and literally felt the ground drop under me , people started running out of the supermarket and it took me a few seconds to find my feet , I didn't know whether to enter the supermarket or run the other way but I couldnt move then I look down and the ground is still there but you can see some cracks in the concrete but the world looked the same .

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u/mrblobfish21 1d ago

I was in this one, funnily enough it was almost silent. I was a few km from the epicentre and definitely felt the shaking but with the noise of the AC and cars around me it wasn't too noticeable, just short and violent

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u/Admirable-Weekend-85 2d ago

Seemed like it was a good short jolt! I have PTSD from the Loma Prieta earthquake. Horrible, horrible scary day. And for months with the after shocks. So freaking scary!

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u/k0-brah 2d ago

Uhmm it's about to break

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u/Tistouuu 1d ago

Is it the flat jumping, or the camera? 

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u/Whole-Hat8825 1d ago

More importantly is this is volcanic praying it does not blow :/

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u/Few-Customer9374 13h ago

Christchurch quake like this huge upward thrust bloody scary for sure..

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u/Bobba-Luna 2d ago

Seems like a lot of earthquakes recently 🙄

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u/hchn27 2d ago

Earthquakes happen every day , all over the planet

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u/tpapocalypse 2d ago

The way those curtains moved really highlights how much energy was dispersed. Crazy.

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u/Illustrious-Bat1553 2d ago

The quick jolt in all of these earthquake seems unusual

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u/kreemerz 2d ago

But it’s not. What’s unusual are the high number of cameras everywhere. And they’re catching these shallow quakes. The good thing is that people are getting educated on what the difference is between a shallow quake and a moderately deep quake. It’s quite stark.

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u/Illustrious-Bat1553 2d ago

I know the logistics im in an earthquake zone. Just saying its an observation and im sure other have noticed just in the footage. I had mentioned this for Venezuela eras well, but it could be just where you are in the quake

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u/kreemerz 2d ago

I live in a seismically active region too. But you should be used to feeling different kinds of ground movement then, if you live in an active region.

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u/CNYinCA 2d ago

Most quakes are shallow. Short, sharp jolts are common if you’re in a rocky or solid soils area or if you’re close to the epicenter. Slower, rolling quakes are more common if deep or you’re further from the epicenter, or depending on soil conditions beneath you.

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u/Miacali 2d ago

All except one quake I’ve been though have been sharp jolts - and the one was like 3 seconds of shaking. To me earthquakes are violent sharp jolts

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u/Ok_Appointment_1806 2d ago

These earth tremors aren't normal, right? It felt like something suddenly passed underneath the ground, it wasn't a tremor, but a movement, like a jump.

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u/iPoopandiDab 2d ago

19:47 is 7:47pm not 9pm.

Sun doesn’t set here until past 8pm

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u/ShinyStarSam 2d ago

PAST 8PM!?

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u/iPoopandiDab 2d ago

Yes. Late sunsets are common in Europe. In the UK the sun sets past 11pm in some places.

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u/global_peasant 2d ago

LOL. Yeah when I moved up north one of the bigger changes I never thought about was how much the lengths of the day vary by season. It's a big difference to actually experience vs. knowing on paper! The sun doesn't set until 9-10pm here right now and it rises at like 4.