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Moderate earthquake 5.7 mag, 141 km ESE of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 13.8221S, 146.4707WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 141 km ESE of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands (88 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pt18044001, us2000d18y. Unique identifier: us2000d18y. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/02/18 / 2018-02-13 02:03:03 / February 13, 2018 @ 2:03 am. Exact location, longitude 146.4707° East, latitude 13.8221° North, depth = 10 km. The 5.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:03:03 / 12:03 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 141 km ESE of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.4707° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.8221° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 141km ESE 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 2018-02-13 02:03:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-13 02:16:44 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 3.07 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 500 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 ,pt,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 1.557 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000d18y Id of event.
Event Code 2000d18y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt18044001,us2000d18y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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