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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Rumung in Micronesia


Earthquake location 9.881S, 138.5264WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Rumung in Micronesia on Sunday. Unique identifier: us700058fs. Ids that are associated to the event: us700058fs. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:41:22 / 4:41 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/08/19 / 2019-08-18 07:41:22 / August 18, 2019 @ 7:41 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 138.5264° East, 9.881° North.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Colonia. Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (37 miles) from Colonia (c. 7 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Micronesia (c. 108 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 have been detected nearby. 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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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 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: 49 km NE of Rumung, Micronesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 138.5264° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.881° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km NE of Rumung, Micronesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-18 07:41:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-13 10:24:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 7.221 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 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 us700058fs Id of event.
Event Code 700058fs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700058fs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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