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Moderate earthquake: M5.4 quake has struck near Anatahan in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 17.0154S, 145.7855WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 73 km N of Anatahan, Northern Mariana Islands (45 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 209.23 km (130 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000hheu. Event ids that are associated: us2000hheu. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:55:33 / 2:55 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 145.7855° East, latitude 17.0154° North, depth = 209.23 km. Global time and date of event 20/09/18 / 2018-09-20 04:55:33 / September 20, 2018 @ 4:55 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 73 km N of Anatahan, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.7855° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.0154° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 209.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km N of Anatahan, 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 2018-09-20 04:55:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-20 05:07:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 449 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 1.764 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us2000hheu Id of event.
Event Code 2000hheu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hheu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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