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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Agrihan in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 18.5331S, 145.6107WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 26 km SSW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands (16 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 224.09 km (139 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: us10007u5m. Event ids that are associated: us10007u5m. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/01/17 / 2017-01-19 17:29:46 / January 19, 2017 @ 5:29 pm. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:29:46 / 3:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 145.6107 East, latitude 18.5331 North, depth = 224.09 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 26 km SSW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.6107° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5331° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 224.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km SSW 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 2017-01-19 17:29:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-17 00:45:59 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 326 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 4.967 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us10007u5m Id of event.
Event Code 10007u5m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007u5m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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