COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

Emergency Management Office

Office of the Governor

Benigno R. Fitial, Governor

Timothy P. Villagomez, Lt. Governor

Mark S. Pangelinan, Acting Director

.............. Dep. Director

 

 

FOR INFORMATION ONLY:

August 09, 2007

 

 

The Emergency Management Office, Office of the Governor, would like to inform the general public that at 7:46 a.m. this morning, Thursday, August 09, 2007, there was an earthquake with preliminary magnitude of 5.3 Richter scale located at latitude 14.085 degrees North 145.505 degrees East, Rota region. This is about 10 miles East of Rota, 75 miles South-Southwest of Saipan, 155 miles South of Anatahan and 60 miles North-East of Guam.

 

Base on all available data a destructive pacific-wide tsunami is not expected and there is no tsunami threat to the Marianas .

 

Thursday August 09, 2007 09:13:37 AM   By:ACT