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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Rota in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 14.7977S, 144.5031WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 103 km NW of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands (64 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.99 km (9 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/05/18 / 2018-05-19 17:45:48 / May 19, 2018 @ 5:45 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 144.5031 East, latitude 14.7977 North, depth = 13.99 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000e8lq. Unique identifier: us1000e8lq. The temblor was detected at 03:45:48 / 3:45 am (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 103 km NW of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.5031° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.7977° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103km NW 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 2018-05-19 17:45:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-19 18:04:02 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 1.252 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us1000e8lq Id of event.
Event Code 1000e8lq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e8lq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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