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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Agrihan in Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on August 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.5758S, 145.7996WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 25 km SSE of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands (16 miles) on Sunday. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:06:46 / 9:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 145.7996° East, 18.5758° North, depth 186.27 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/07/16 / 2016-07-30 23:06:46 / July 30, 2016 @ 11:06 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 186.27 km (116 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us100069vc. Event ids that are associated: us100069vc.

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days seventy-six 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 25 km SSE of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.7996° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5758° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 186.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km SSE of Agrihan, 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 2016-07-30 23:06:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-10 01:44:11 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 284 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 3.316 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us100069vc Id of event.
Event Code 100069vc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100069vc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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