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

Posted by admin on September 5, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.1996S, 145.9339WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Rota in Northern Mariana Islands on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/08/15 / 2015-08-17 12:46:00 / August 17, 2015 @ 12:46 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 145.9339 East, latitude 14.1996 North, depth = 87.64 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 22:46:00 / 10:46 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 87.64 km (54 miles). Id of earthquake: us20003fp4. Event ids that are associated: us20003fp4.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Jose Village (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from San Jose Village (c. 15 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Northern Mariana Islands (c. 54 000 pop).

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

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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: 79 km E of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.9339° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.1996° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km E 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 2015-08-17 12:46:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-05 08:20:36 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 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 1.199 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us20003fp4 Id of event.
Event Code 20003fp4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003fp4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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