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


Earthquake location 14.1821S, 145.5304WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Rota in Northern Mariana Islands. Unique identifier: us10009789. Ids that are associated to the event: us10009789. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/06/17 / 2017-06-29 01:14:40 / June 29, 2017 @ 1:14 am. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:14:40 / 11:14 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 107.92 km (67 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 145.5304° East, 14.1821° North, depth 107.92 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Northern Mariana Islands (c. 54 000 pop). The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from San Jose Village (c. 15 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Jose Village (min 5000 pop).

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 twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 35 km E of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.5304° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.1821° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 107.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km E 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 2017-06-29 01:14:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-09 21:28:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 299 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 0.872 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us10009789 Id of event.
Event Code 10009789 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10009789, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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