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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 53 km SE of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 13.8356S, 145.5761WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Rota in Northern Mariana Islands. The temblor was reported at 06:17:16 / 6:17 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 95.19 km (59 miles). Id of earthquake: us10004w46. Event ids that are associated: us10004w46. Exact location of earthquake, 145.5761° East, 13.8356° North, depth 95.19 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/03/16 / 2016-03-04 20:17:16 / March 4, 2016 @ 8:17 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yigo Village (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 53 km SE of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.5761° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.8356° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km SE 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 2016-03-04 20:17:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-02 21:02:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 168 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 0.73 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 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 us10004w46 Id of event.
Event Code 10004w46 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004w46, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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