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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near JP Tinian Town pre-WW2 in Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on March 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.0862S, 145.6219WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from JP Tinian Town pre-WW2 in Northern Mariana Islands. Exact location of event, longitude 145.6219 East, latitude 15.0862 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us20005a0w. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005a0w. The temblor was reported at 15:58:33 / 3:58 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/03/16 / 2016-03-15 05:58:33 / March 15, 2016 @ 5:58 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saipan, San Jose Village (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Northern Mariana Islands (c. 54 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 20 km (12 miles) from Saipan (c. 48 200 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from San Jose Village (c. 15 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km N of JP Tinian Town pre-WW2, Northern Mariana Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.6219° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.0862° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km N of JP Tinian Town pre-WW2, 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 2016-03-15 05:58:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-15 21:57:22 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 3.2 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 190 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 0.222 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20005a0w Id of event.
Event Code 20005a0w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005a0w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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