A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 43 km ESE of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands (27 miles). Global time and date of event 14/07/17 / 2017-07-14 07:56:03 / July 14, 2017 @ 7:56 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43.6 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us20009w83. Unique identifier: us20009w83. Exact location of event, longitude 145.2975 East, latitude 20.4391 North, depth = 43.6 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 17:56:03 / 5:56 pm (local time epicenter).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 43 km ESE of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands.
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