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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Agrihan in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 18.4451S, 145.6864WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 35 km S of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100069st. Id of event: us100069st. Exact location of earthquake, 145.6864° East, 18.4451° North, depth 193.48 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/08/16 / 2016-08-03 16:29:01 / August 3, 2016 @ 4:29 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 193.48 km (120 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:29:01 / 2:29 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 35 km S of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.6864° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4451° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 193.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km S 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 2016-08-03 16:29:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-23 00:55:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 312 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 3.187 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us100069st Id of event.
Event Code 100069st An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100069st, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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