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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Rota in Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on August 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.1248S, 144.5869WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Rota in Northern Mariana Islands. Exact location of earthquake, 144.5869° East, 14.1248° North, depth 140.3 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:54:01 / 4:54 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us100069qv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100069qv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/07/16 / 2016-07-29 06:54:01 / July 29, 2016 @ 6:54 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 140.3 km (87 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Umatac Village, Talofofo Village, Santa Rita Village. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 km W of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.5869° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.1248° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 140.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km W 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 2016-07-29 06:54:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-24 06:23:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 298 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 0.598 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 118 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 us100069qv Id of event.
Event Code 100069qv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100069qv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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