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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Angaur State in Palau

Posted by admin on January 24, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.1812S, 133.8624WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Angaur State in Palau on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 133.8624° East, 6.1812° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 10:03:16 / 10:03 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000d09j. Event ids that are associated: us7000d09j. Global time and date of event 05/01/21 / 2021-01-05 10:03:16 / January 5, 2021 @ 10:03 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from Angaur State (c. 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Palau (c. 20 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Angaur State (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 85 km SSW of Angaur State, Palau.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 133.8624° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.1812° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85 km SSW of Angaur State, Palau Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-05 10:03:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-24 12:06:53 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 246 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 9.182 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us7000d09j Id of event.
Event Code 7000d09j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d09j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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