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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Saipan in Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on February 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.7807S, 147.8883WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 237 km ENE of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands (147 miles). Id of earthquake: us70007n1x. Event ids that are associated: us70007n1x. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 147.8883° East, latitude 15.7807° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 11/02/20 / 2020-02-11 10:37:02 / February 11, 2020 @ 10:37 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 20:37:02 / 8:37 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 237 km ENE of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.8883° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.7807° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 237km ENE of Saipan, 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 2020-02-11 10:37:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-11 10:57:14 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 432 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 2.093 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us70007n1x Id of event.
Event Code 70007n1x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007n1x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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