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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Mariana Islands region

Posted by admin on July 31, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 21.6296S, 143.1695WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported Mariana Islands region (0 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 11:40:38 / 11:40 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/07/20 / 2020-07-24 11:40:38 / July 24, 2020 @ 11:40 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000b3c3. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000b3c3. Exact location of event, longitude 143.1695 East, latitude 21.6296 North, depth = 296.84 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 296.84 km (184 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Mariana Islands region. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.1695° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 21.6296° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 296.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Mariana Islands region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-24 11:40:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-31 11:06:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 271 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 5.515 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us6000b3c3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000b3c3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b3c3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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