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code 2005/02/05 03:34:25.73 16.0110  145.8670 142.70  6.60   Mw  322          1.12  NEI 200502054007 code



This earthquake (3) happened at 3:34 on February 5th, 2005 near the Northern Mariana Islands. According to Bluestone, the earthquake was detected at around 4:02 as we can see from this rather clear-cut image. **Because the distance traveled, 9034.34 km, was almost completely over water, I used the p-wave distance (5-8 km). 9034.34 km/6=1505.72 sec.../60 sec=25.1 minutes. The time difference between 3:34 and 4:02 is 28 minutes, so as we can see the time difference fits almost perfectly.**