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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Anatahan in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 16.4874S, 146.1097WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 49 km ENE of Anatahan, Northern Mariana Islands (30 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 146.1097 East, latitude 16.4874 North, depth = 104.02 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/05/16 / 2016-05-26 00:20:23 / May 26, 2016 @ 12:20 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 104.02 km (65 miles). Unique identifier: us20005zk8. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005zk8. The temblor was reported at 10:20:23 / 10:20 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 49 km ENE of Anatahan, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.1097° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.4874° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 104.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km ENE of Anatahan, 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 2016-05-26 00:20:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-15 04:08:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 312 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 1.277 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us20005zk8 Id of event.
Event Code 20005zk8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005zk8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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