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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Saipan in Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on December 23, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.9348S, 148.1202WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 266 km ENE of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands (165 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000bui4. Unique identifier: us1000bui4. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/12/17 / 2017-12-15 14:20:09 / December 15, 2017 @ 2:20 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:20:09 / 12:20 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 148.1202 East, latitude 15.9348 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 266 km ENE of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.1202° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.9348° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 266km ENE 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 2017-12-15 14:20:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-23 11:23:12 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 2.35 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us1000bui4 Id of event.
Event Code 1000bui4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bui4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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