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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 134 km E of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 18.0128S, 147.037WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 134 km E of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands (83 miles) on Tuesday. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:03:06 / 3:03 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10003w0g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003w0g. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 147.037 East, latitude 18.0128 North, depth = 39.77 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/11/15 / 2015-11-09 17:03:06 / November 9, 2015 @ 5:03 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 39.77 km (25 miles).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 134 km E of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.037° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0128° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 134km E of Pagan, 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 2015-11-09 17:03:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-09 17:22:41 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 385 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 4.868 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us10003w0g Id of event.
Event Code 10003w0g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003w0g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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