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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Anatahan in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 17.0039S, 147.2896WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 187 km ENE of Anatahan, Northern Mariana Islands (116 miles) on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 147.2896 East, latitude 17.0039 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us1000auh9. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000auh9. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:31:09 / 7:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/10/17 / 2017-10-20 09:31:09 / October 20, 2017 @ 9:31 am UTC/GMT. 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eight 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. Every 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 187 km ENE of Anatahan, Northern Mariana Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.2896° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.0039° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 187km ENE of Anatahan, 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 2017-10-20 09:31:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-20 10:06:38 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 354 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 4.121 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 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 us1000auh9 Id of event.
Event Code 1000auh9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000auh9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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