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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Rota in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 13.7617S, 145.2844WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Rota in Northern Mariana Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 145.2844° East, 13.7617° North, depth 66.42 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 66.42 km (41 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:42:22 / 4:42 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000kbey. Event ids that are associated: us2000kbey. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/04/19 / 2019-04-06 18:42:22 / April 6, 2019 @ 6:42 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Merizo Village, Umatac Village, Inarajan Village (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 44 km SSE of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.2844° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.7617° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km SSE 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 2019-04-06 18:42:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-06 19:24:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 370 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 0.439 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us2000kbey Id of event.
Event Code 2000kbey An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000kbey, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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