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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Pagan in Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on March 21, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2419S, 146.5734WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 86 km E of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands (53 miles) on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 21/03/18 / 2018-03-21 11:23:14 / March 21, 2018 @ 11:23 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000d711. Unique identifier: us1000d711. The temblor was detected at 21:23:14 / 9:23 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 73.8 km (46 miles). Exact location of event, depth 73.8 km, 146.5734° East, 18.2419° North.

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 86 km E of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.5734° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2419° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86km 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 2018-03-21 11:23:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-21 11:44:01 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 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 3.077 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us1000d711 Id of event.
Event Code 1000d711 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d711, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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