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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Nord in Greenland


Earthquake location 81.3019S, -4.5713WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 222 km E of Nord, Greenland (138 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -4.5713 West, latitude 81.3019 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/04/20 / 2020-04-05 13:22:54 / April 5, 2020 @ 1:22 pm. The temblor was reported at 13:22:54 / 1:22 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008sh5. Id of event: us70008sh5.

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 one and in the last 365 days three 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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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 222 km E of Nord, Greenland.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -4.5713° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 81.3019° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 222km E of Nord, Greenland Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-05 13:22:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-09 19:27:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 0 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 271 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 3.707 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 95 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 us70008sh5 Id of event.
Event Code 70008sh5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008sh5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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