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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Farallon de Pajaros in Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on July 1, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 21.6417S, 143.0623WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 226 km WNW of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands (140 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 299.63 km (186 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.0623 East, latitude 21.6417 North, depth = 299.63 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002mq0. Id of event: us10002mq0. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/07/15 / 2015-07-01 02:41:31 / July 1, 2015 @ 2:41 am. The temblor was picked up at 12:41:31 / 12:41 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 226 km WNW of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.0623° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 21.6417° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 299.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 226km WNW of Farallon de Pajaros, 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 2015-07-01 02:41:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-01 03:05:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 298 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 5.488 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us10002mq0 Id of event.
Event Code 10002mq0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002mq0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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