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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 210 km NNW of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 22.1463S, 143.8124WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (mg/mb) has occurred on Monday, 210 kilometers (130 miles) from Farallon de Pajaros in Northern Mariana Islands. The temblor was reported at 07:01:47 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 121.13 km (75 miles). Global time of event 19/04/15 / 2015-04-19 21:01:47 / April 19, 2015 @ 9:01 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 143.8124 East, latitude 22.1463 North, depth 121.13 km, unique identifier, us200027ny.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.8124° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.1463° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 121.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 210km NNW of Farallon de Pajaros, 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 2015-04-19 21:01:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-04-19 21:28:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 312 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 5.145 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us200027ny Id of event.
Event Code 200027ny An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200027ny, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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