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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Pagan in Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on March 10, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.229S, 146.8304WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 112 km E of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands (70 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 146.8304 East, latitude 18.229 North, depth = 64.42 km. The temblor was detected at 06:13:26 / 6:13 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 64.42 km (40 miles). Global time and date of event 10/03/18 / 2018-03-10 20:13:26 / March 10, 2018 @ 8:13 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us1000d2uy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d2uy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 112 km E of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.8304° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.229° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112km 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 2018-03-10 20:13:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-10 20:28:50 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 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 369 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 3.134 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us1000d2uy Id of event.
Event Code 1000d2uy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d2uy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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