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Friday, Oct 23, 2026 15:40 | 50 mins ago | By: EarthquakeMonitor
An earthquake of magnitude 4.5 occurred just 7 minutes ago, 66 km northwest of Lipari, Italy, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported.
The quake struck at a shallow depth of 10. km beneath the epicenter near Lipari, Province of Messina, Sicily, Italy, on Friday afternoon, October 23rd, 2026, at 5:32 pm local time. The exact magnitude, epicenter, and depth of the quake might be revised within the next few hours or minutes as seismologists review the data and refine their calculations, or as other agencies issue their reports.
A second report was later issued by the citizen-seismograph network RaspberryShake, which also listed it as a magnitude 4.5 earthquake.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage but was probably felt by many people as a light vibration in the area of the epicenter.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Pecorini A Mare (pop. 100), located 37 km from the epicenter; Pianoconte (pop. 1,100), 64 km away; Canneto (pop. 2,100), 64 km away; Lipari (pop. 4,300), 66 km away; Brolo (pop. 4,900), 88 km away; Gioiosa Marea (pop. 3,200), 89 km away; San Giorgio (pop. 1,900), 91 km away; and Milazzo (pop. 31,800), 103 km away.
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