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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Pagan in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 17.4014S, 147.8079WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 229 km ESE of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands (142 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us70003xqp. Event ids that are associated: us70003xqp. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/06/19 / 2019-06-10 15:59:58 / June 10, 2019 @ 3:59 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 01:59:58 / 1:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 147.8079° East, 17.4014° North.

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 thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 229 km ESE of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.8079° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.4014° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 229km 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 2019-06-10 15:59:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-10 16:33:06 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 385 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 2.893 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us70003xqp Id of event.
Event Code 70003xqp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003xqp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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