Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Saipan in Northern Mariana Islands

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Saipan in Northern Mariana Islands. Exact location, longitude 145.9696° East, latitude 15.3239° North, depth = 107.593 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/09/24 / 2024-09-16 03:47:41 / September 16, 2024 @ 3:47 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 107.593 km (67 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us7000ne6d. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000ne6d. The temblor was detected at 03:47:41 / 3:47 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Saipan (c. 48 200 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from San Jose Village (c. 15 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Jose Village, Saipan (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Northern Mariana Islands (c. 54 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km ENE of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.9696° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.3239° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	107.593 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26 km 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	2024-09-16 03:47:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-16 04:09:52	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	326	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.193	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	132	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	us7000ne6d	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ne6d	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ne6d,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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