A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 31 km NW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands (19 miles). Global time and date of event 22/05/16 / 2016-05-22 09:10:17 / May 22, 2016 @ 9:10 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 185.67 km (115 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005yji. Unique identifier: us20005yji. The temblor was detected at 19:10:17 / 7:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 185.67 km, 145.4336° East, 18.9422° North.
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 31 km NW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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