A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 31 km SW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands (19 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 191.12 km, 145.4697° East, 18.5594° North. Event id: us100069u6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100069u6. The temblor was detected at 20:01:35 / 8:01 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/07/16 / 2016-07-30 10:01:35 / July 30, 2016 @ 10:01 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 191.12 km (119 miles).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-nine, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 31 km SW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands.
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