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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Anatahan in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 16.6355S, 145.3584WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 44 km NW of Anatahan, Northern Mariana Islands (27 miles) on Monday. Unique identifier: us70008v0r. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008v0r. The temblor was detected at 04:01:20 / 4:01 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 291.46 km, 145.3584° East, 16.6355° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 291.46 km (181 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/04/20 / 2020-04-12 18:01:20 / April 12, 2020 @ 6:01 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 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: 44 km NW of Anatahan, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.3584° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.6355° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 291.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km NW 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 2020-04-12 18:01:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-12 19:26:47 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 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 1.447 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us70008v0r Id of event.
Event Code 70008v0r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008v0r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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