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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Agrihan in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 19.0861S, 147.2929WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 174 km ENE of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands (108 miles) on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jf9g. Unique identifier: us1000jf9g. The temblor was reported at 12:52:08 / 12:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/03/19 / 2019-03-14 02:52:08 / March 14, 2019 @ 2:52 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 147.2929 East, latitude 19.0861 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine 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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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 174 km ENE of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.2929° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0861° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 174km ENE 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 2019-03-14 02:52:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-14 03:15:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 369 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 4.085 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us1000jf9g Id of event.
Event Code 1000jf9g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jf9g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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