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Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Anatahan in Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on April 25, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.8837S, 145.7299WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Anatahan in Northern Mariana Islands. Exact location of event, depth 173.75 km, 145.7299° East, 15.8837° North. The temblor was detected at 15:53:28 / 3:53 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/04/18 / 2018-04-14 05:53:28 / April 14, 2018 @ 5:53 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000dnmb. Unique identifier: us1000dnmb. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 173.75 km (108 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saipan (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Saipan (c. 48 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Northern Mariana Islands (c. 54 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 52 km S of Anatahan, Northern Mariana Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.7299° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.8837° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 173.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km S of Anatahan, 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 2018-04-14 05:53:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-25 11:50:44 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 222 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 0.641 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us1000dnmb Id of event.
Event Code 1000dnmb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dnmb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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