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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Saipan in Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on January 8, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.2678S, 147.9632WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 259 km ESE of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands (161 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:19:04 / 8:19 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 13/12/16 / 2016-12-13 22:19:04 / December 13, 2016 @ 10:19 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007lrk. Id of event: us10007lrk. Exact location of event, longitude 147.9632 East, latitude 14.2678 North, depth = 10 km.

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 259 km ESE of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.9632° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.2678° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 259km ESE of Saipan, 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 2016-12-13 22:19:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-08 04:18:06 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 326 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 2.315 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us10007lrk Id of event.
Event Code 10007lrk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007lrk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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