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Moderate earthquake 5.7 mag, 237 km ESE of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on October 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.3785S, 147.8766WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) strikes 237 km ESE of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands (147 miles) on Friday. Unique identifier: us1000hhgs. Ids that are associated to the event: pt18299001, us1000hhgs. The temblor was reported at 19:05:39 / 7:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 147.8766° East, 17.3785° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 26/10/18 / 2018-10-26 09:05:39 / October 26, 2018 @ 9:05 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate 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. 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: 237 km ESE of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.8766° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.3785° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 237km ESE 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 2018-10-26 09:05:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-26 09:27:23 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 2.92 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 500 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 ,pt,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 4.754 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us1000hhgs Id of event.
Event Code 1000hhgs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt18299001,us1000hhgs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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