Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Fais in Micronesia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 169 km NNW of Fais, Micronesia (105 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 139.9634 East, latitude 11.1919 North, depth = 48.33 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 48.33 km (30 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:24:46 / 8:24 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/02/16 / 2016-02-21 11:24:46 / February 21, 2016 @ 11:24 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10004sd5. Event ids that are associated: us10004sd5.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 169 km NNW of Fais, Micronesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	139.9634° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.1919° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	48.33 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	169km NNW of Fais, Micronesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-21 11:24:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-05 13:20:34	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	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	298	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	15.983	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	79	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	us10004sd5	Id of event.
Event Code	10004sd5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004sd5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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