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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Rota in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 14.5851S, 144.3659WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 102 km WNW of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands (63 miles) on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: us70007mkv. Unique identifier: us70007mkv. The temblor was reported at 08:21:05 / 8:21 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, 144.3659° East, 14.5851° North, depth 7.06 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.06 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 01/02/20 / 2020-02-01 22:21:05 / February 1, 2020 @ 10:21 pm UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 102 km WNW of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.3659° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.5851° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km WNW 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 2020-02-01 22:21:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-21 06:49:44 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 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 1.103 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us70007mkv Id of event.
Event Code 70007mkv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007mkv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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