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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 21 km NW of Fais, Micronesia


Earthquake location 9.9021S, 140.3858WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 21 km NW of Fais, Micronesia (13 miles) on Saturday. 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: 08/12/17 / 2017-12-08 17:47:05 / December 8, 2017 @ 5:47 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000c4g4. Event ids that are associated: us2000c4g4. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21.32 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 21.32 km, 140.3858° East, 9.9021° North. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:47:05 / 2:47 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km NW of Fais, Micronesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 140.3858° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.9021° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km NW of Fais, Micronesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-08 17:47:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-02 16:55:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 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 5.717 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us2000c4g4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000c4g4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c4g4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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