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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Saipan in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 14.7063S, 147.1514WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 160 km ESE of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands (99 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.893 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nn93. Unique identifier: us6000nn93. Exact location of event, depth 38.893 km, 147.1514° East, 14.7063° North. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:03:54 / 1:03 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 13:03:54 / August 7, 2024 @ 1:03 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 160 km ESE of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.1514° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.7063° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.893 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 160 km ESE 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 2024-08-07 13:03:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-06 11:17:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 312 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.415 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us6000nn93 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nn93 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nn93, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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