Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Reykjanes Ridge

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported Reykjanes Ridge (0 miles) on Saturday. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:02:31 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us200066qw. Unique identifier: us200066qw. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/06/16 / 2016-06-25 03:02:31 / June 25, 2016 @ 3:02 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -35.4288° West, 57.1399° North, depth 10 km.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Reykjanes Ridge.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-35.4288° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	57.1399° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Reykjanes Ridge	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-06-25 03:02:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-25 03:20:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-120	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	340	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	6.527	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	159	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	us200066qw	Id of event.
Event Code	200066qw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200066qw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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