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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Ocean City in Maryland

Posted by admin on January 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 37.2398S, -73.0067WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 219 km ESE of Ocean City, Maryland (136 miles) on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000j4bf. Unique identifier: us2000j4bf. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -73.0067° West, latitude 37.2398° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 18:30:48 / 6:30 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/01/19 / 2019-01-15 23:30:48 / January 15, 2019 @ 11:30 pm.

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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: 219 km ESE of Ocean City, Maryland.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.0067° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 37.2398° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 219km ESE of Ocean City, Maryland Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-15 23:30:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-15 23:50:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 3.36 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 340 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 2.144 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us2000j4bf Id of event.
Event Code 2000j4bf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j4bf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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