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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near JP Tinian Town pre-WW2 in Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on November 28, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.906S, 145.4446WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from JP Tinian Town pre-WW2 in Northern Mariana Islands on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 133.24 km (83 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us2000bsd3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bsd3. The temblor was picked up at 09:07:39 / 9:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 133.24 km, 145.4446° East, 14.906° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/11/17 / 2017-11-12 23:07:39 / November 12, 2017 @ 11:07 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saipan, San Jose Village (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Northern Mariana Islands (c. 54 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Saipan (c. 48 200 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from San Jose Village (c. 15 000 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 20 km WSW of JP Tinian Town pre-WW2, Northern Mariana Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.4446° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.906° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 133.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km WSW of JP Tinian Town pre-WW2, 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 2017-11-12 23:07:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-28 03:26:27 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 284 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 1.423 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us2000bsd3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000bsd3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bsd3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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