A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Rota in Northern Mariana Islands. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/07/18 / 2018-07-10 23:40:47 / July 10, 2018 @ 11:40 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000g47z. Unique identifier: us2000g47z. The temblor was picked up at 09:40:47 / 9:40 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 46.28 km (29 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 145.601° East, 14.4338° North, depth 46.28 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Saipan, San Jose Village (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Northern Mariana Islands (c. 54 000 pop). Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Saipan (c. 48 200 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from San Jose Village (c. 15 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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