Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Mariana Islands region

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, Mariana Islands region (0 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 143.0077 East, latitude 21.5818 North, depth = 303.346 km. Global time and date of event 17/08/24 / 2024-08-17 18:12:27 / August 17, 2024 @ 6:12 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 303.346 km (188 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us7000ncup. Event ids that are associated: us7000ncup. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:12:27 / 6:12 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Mariana Islands region. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.0077° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	21.5818° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	303.346 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	2024-08-17 18:12:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-11 19:18:48	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	40	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.54	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	140	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	us7000ncup	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ncup	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ncup,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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