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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Rota region, Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on August 31, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.1916S, 144.9365WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, Rota region, Northern Mariana Islands kilometers (0 miles) from Rota region, Northern Mariana Islands. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 165.54 km (103 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 144.9365 East, latitude 14.1916 North, depth = 165.54 km. The temblor was detected at 03:04:24 / 3:04 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70005a7y. Unique identifier: us70005a7y. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/08/19 / 2019-08-25 03:04:24 / August 25, 2019 @ 3:04 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Agat Village, Santa Rita Village, Yona Village. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop).

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 twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Rota region, Northern Mariana Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.9365° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.1916° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 165.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Rota region, 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 2019-08-25 03:04:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-31 20:31:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 298 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 0.602 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us70005a7y Id of event.
Event Code 70005a7y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005a7y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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