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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on August 23, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9528S, 145.533WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands (0 miles). The temblor was picked up at 14:53:05 / 2:53 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/08/20 / 2020-08-06 14:53:05 / August 6, 2020 @ 2:53 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bdce. Id of event: us6000bdce. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 145.533 East, latitude 18.9528 North, depth = 211.03 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 211.03 km (131 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.533° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9528° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 211.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Pagan region, 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 2020-08-06 14:53:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-23 14:15:45 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 259 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 3.699 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us6000bdce Id of event.
Event Code 6000bdce An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bdce, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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