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Moderate earthquake 5.9 mag, 120 km NNE of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on December 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 21.5277S, 145.3819WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 120 km NNE of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands (75 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 02:43:58 / 2:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 145.3819° East, 21.5277° North, depth 16.96 km. Id of earthquake: us10007lqe. Event ids that are associated: us10007lqe. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.96 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/12/16 / 2016-12-21 16:43:58 / December 21, 2016 @ 4:43 pm.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 120 km NNE of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.3819° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 21.5277° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 120km NNE of Farallon de Pajaros, 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 2016-12-21 16:43:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-21 17:13:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.27 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 536 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 6.263 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 21 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10007lqe Id of event.
Event Code 10007lqe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007lqe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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