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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Agrihan in Northern Mariana Islands

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Earthquake location 18.6582S, 145.9559WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 32 km ESE of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands (20 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/04/17 / 2017-04-10 02:01:36 / April 10, 2017 @ 2:01 am. The temblor was picked up at 12:01:36 / 12:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 160.1 km, 145.9559° East, 18.6582° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 160.1 km (99 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008g5j. Unique identifier: us10008g5j. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 32 km ESE of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.9559° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6582° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 160.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km ESE 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 2017-04-10 02:01:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-01 00:01:27 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 3.41 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 101 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 us10008g5j Id of event.
Event Code 10008g5j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008g5j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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