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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Farallon de Pajaros in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 20.0507S, 145.5402WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 86 km SE of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands (53 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:18:03 / 1:18 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004c45. Unique identifier: us10004c45. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 97.75 km (61 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/01/16 / 2016-01-07 15:18:03 / January 7, 2016 @ 3:18 pm. Exact location, longitude 145.5402° East, latitude 20.0507° North, depth = 97.75 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 86 km SE of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.5402° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.0507° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 97.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km SE of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-07 15:18:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-07 17:42:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 369 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.789 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10004c45 Id of event.
Event Code 10004c45 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004c45, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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