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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Rota in Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on August 14, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.9691S, 144.9353WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Rota in Northern Mariana Islands. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/08/15 / 2015-08-14 22:25:28 / August 14, 2015 @ 10:25 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 148.19 km (92 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 144.9353 East, latitude 13.9691 North, depth = 148.19 km. The temblor was detected at 08:25:28 / 8:25 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us100032fe. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100032fe.

Epicenter of the event was 51 km (32 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Merizo Village, Umatac Village, Inarajan Village. Close country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 35 km SW of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.9353° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9691° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 148.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km SW of Rota, 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 2015-08-14 22:25:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-14 22:56:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 356 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 0.383 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us100032fe Id of event.
Event Code 100032fe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100032fe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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