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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag has occurred near Pagan in Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on July 21, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4709S, 145.9983WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was reported 46 km NNE of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands (29 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 09:56:00 / 9:56 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000gaa3. Event ids that are associated: us2000gaa3. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/07/18 / 2018-07-20 23:56:00 / July 20, 2018 @ 11:56 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 145.9983 East, latitude 18.4709 North, depth = 125.75 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 125.75 km (78 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 46 km NNE of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.9983° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4709° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 125.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km NNE 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 2018-07-20 23:56:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-21 00:20:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.59 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 483 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 3.218 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 16 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 us2000gaa3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000gaa3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000gaa3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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