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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Farallon de Pajaros in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 22.2624S, 143.4716WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 241 km NW of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands (150 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 120.66 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/12/19 / 2019-12-30 06:22:42 / December 30, 2019 @ 6:22 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000705w. Unique identifier: us7000705w. Exact location of event, longitude 143.4716 East, latitude 22.2624 North, depth = 120.66 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:22:42 / 4:22 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 241 km NW of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.4716° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.2624° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 120.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 241km NW of Farallon de Pajaros, 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 2019-12-30 06:22:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-24 11:49:28 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 4.952 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us7000705w Id of event.
Event Code 7000705w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000705w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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