Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Owen Fracture Zone region

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes Owen Fracture Zone region (0 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/11/16 / 2016-11-01 23:55:25 / November 1, 2016 @ 11:55 pm. The temblor was reported at 03:55:25 / 3:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 56.6635° East, 14.2855° North. Event id: us100073l3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100073l3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: Owen Fracture Zone region.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	56.6635° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.2855° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Owen Fracture Zone region	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-11-01 23:55:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-02 01:56:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	240	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	13.99	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	99	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	us100073l3	Id of event.
Event Code	100073l3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100073l3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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