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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake strikes near Pagan in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 17.6478S, 148.1927WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (mg/mb) was reported Thursday, 261 kilometers (162 miles) from Pagan in Northern Mariana Islands. The temblor was reported at 10:08:03 / 10:08 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 35.29 km (22 miles). Global time of event 26/03/15 / 2015-03-26 00:08:03 / March 26, 2015 @ 12:08 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 148.1927 East, latitude 17.6478 North, depth 35.29 km, unique identifier, us10001sct.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.1927° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.6478° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 261km E 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 2015-03-26 00:08:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-04-17 03:19:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 271 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 2.706 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us10001sct Id of event.
Event Code 10001sct An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10001sct, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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