Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Saipan in Northern Mariana Islands

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Saipan in Northern Mariana Islands. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 53.881 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 146.2444 East, latitude 15.2765 North, depth = 53.881 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 12:17:16 / 12:17 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000nn68. Event ids that are associated: us7000nn68. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/10/24 / 2024-10-07 12:17:16 / October 7, 2024 @ 12:17 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Saipan (c. 48 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from San Jose Village (c. 15 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Northern Mariana Islands (c. 54 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Jose Village, Saipan (min 5000 pop).

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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 53 km E of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	146.2444° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	15.2765° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	53.881 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53 km E 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	2024-10-07 12:17:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-28 08:39:07	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.439	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	139	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	us7000nn68	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nn68	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nn68,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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