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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Agrihan in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 18.8823S, 145.7526WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 15 km NE of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands (9 miles) on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/06/19 / 2019-06-10 01:54:58 / June 10, 2019 @ 1:54 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:54:58 / 11:54 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600040s5. Id of event: us600040s5. Exact location of event, longitude 145.7526 East, latitude 18.8823 North, depth = 103.81 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 103.81 km (65 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-nine 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 15 km NE of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.7526° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8823° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 103.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NE 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 2019-06-10 01:54:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-18 23:08:14 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 284 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 3.621 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us600040s5 Id of event.
Event Code 600040s5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600040s5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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