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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Rota in Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on December 9, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.3577S, 145.4035WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Rota in Northern Mariana Islands. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 13:07:38 / December 9, 2016 @ 1:07 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:07:38 / 11:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 145.4035° East, latitude 14.3577° North, depth = 99.97 km. Id of earthquake: us20007zhq. Event ids that are associated: us20007zhq. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 99.97 km (62 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from San Jose Village (c. 15 000 pop). Close country/countries, Northern Mariana Islands (c. 54 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Jose Village.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-eight 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 31 km NE of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.4035° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.3577° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km NE 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 2016-12-09 13:07:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-09 13:44:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 340 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 0.923 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us20007zhq Id of event.
Event Code 20007zhq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007zhq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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