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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 224 km NNE of Fais, Micronesia


Earthquake location 11.756S, 140.9379WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 224 km NNE of Fais, Micronesia (139 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005hep. Id of event: us20005hep. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/04/16 / 2016-04-12 15:12:04 / April 12, 2016 @ 3:12 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 140.9379 East, latitude 11.756 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:12:04 / 12:12 am (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 224 km NNE of Fais, Micronesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.9379° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.756° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 224km NNE 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 2016-04-12 15:12:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-12 20:39:01 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 326 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 5.853 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us20005hep Id of event.
Event Code 20005hep An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005hep, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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