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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Saipan in Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on January 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.3698S, 145.8288WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Saipan in Northern Mariana Islands. Event id: us10004btq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004btq. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/12/15 / 2015-12-30 10:17:25 / December 30, 2015 @ 10:17 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 130.5 km (81 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 145.8288 East, latitude 15.3698 North, depth = 130.5 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:17:25 / 8:17 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Jose Village, Saipan. Nearby country/countries, Northern Mariana Islands (c. 54 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Saipan (c. 48 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from San Jose Village (c. 15 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km NNE of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.8288° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.3698° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 130.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NNE of Saipan, 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 2015-12-30 10:17:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-29 07:37:48 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 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 0.133 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us10004btq Id of event.
Event Code 10004btq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004btq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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