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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Agrihan in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 18.7449S, 145.6279WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 4 km WSW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands (2 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/12/19 / 2019-12-30 14:07:14 / December 30, 2019 @ 2:07 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 145.6279 East, latitude 18.7449 North, depth = 223.16 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:07:14 / 12:07 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000705y. Event ids that are associated: us7000705y. The epicenter was at a depth of 223.16 km (139 miles).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 4 km WSW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.6279° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7449° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 223.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km WSW 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 2019-12-30 14:07:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-15 16:21:54 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 284 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 3.488 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us7000705y Id of event.
Event Code 7000705y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000705y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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