Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Mosfellsbær in Iceland

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Mosfellsbær in Iceland. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:12:40 / 2:12 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -21.7709° West, 64.1281° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/03/21 / 2021-03-01 14:12:40 / March 1, 2021 @ 2:12 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us7000dg0e. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000dg0e.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Borgarnes, Selfoss, Akranes. Epicenter of the event was 6 km (4 miles) from Reykjavík (c. 118 900 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Kópavogur (c. 31 700 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Hafnarfjörður (c. 26 800 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Garðabær (c. 11 400 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Mosfellsbær (c. 8 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Akranes (c. 6 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Iceland (c. 309 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km SW of Mosfellsbær, Iceland. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-21.7709° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	64.1281° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km SW of Mosfellsbær, Iceland	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-03-01 14:12:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-03-07 21:55:27	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	298	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	0.651	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	165	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	us7000dg0e	Id of event.
Event Code	7000dg0e	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000dg0e,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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