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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 18.5465S, 145.5361WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands (0 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us100069rd. Unique identifier: us100069rd. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/07/16 / 2016-07-29 22:15:53 / July 29, 2016 @ 10:15 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 205.72 km, 145.5361° East, 18.5465° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 205.72 km (128 miles). The temblor was picked up at 22:15:53 / 10:15 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.5361° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5465° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 205.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Pagan region, 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 2016-07-29 22:15:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-16 03:12:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 3.296 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us100069rd Id of event.
Event Code 100069rd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100069rd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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