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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Agrihan in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 19.0647S, 145.5532WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 35 km NNW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands (22 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude 145.5532 East, latitude 19.0647 North, depth = 209.48 km. Id of earthquake: us2000649r. Event ids that are associated: us2000649r. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:26:55 / 7:26 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 08/06/16 / 2016-06-08 09:26:55 / June 8, 2016 @ 9:26 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 209.48 km (130 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 35 km NNW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.5532° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0647° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 209.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km NNW of Agrihan, 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 2016-06-08 09:26:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-08 08:07:44 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 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 3.809 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us2000649r Id of event.
Event Code 2000649r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000649r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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