Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Rota in Northern Mariana Islands

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Rota in Northern Mariana Islands. The temblor was detected at 08:27:17 / 8:27 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/05/20 / 2020-05-01 22:27:17 / May 1, 2020 @ 10:27 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 102.35 km (64 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 145.2109° East, latitude 14.3937° North, depth = 102.35 km. Event id: usd000cj17. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: usd000cj17.

Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from San Jose Village (c. 15 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Northern Mariana Islands (c. 54 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Jose Village (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km N of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.2109° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.3937° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	102.35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km N 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	2020-05-01 22:27:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-01 22:57:03	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	0.866	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 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	usd000cj17	Id of event.
Event Code	d000cj17	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,usd000cj17,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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