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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 59 km NW of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 20.9656S, 144.5539WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 59 km NW of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands (37 miles). Exact location of event, depth 44.61 km, 144.5539° East, 20.9656° North. Id of earthquake: us10006tit. Event ids that are associated: us10006tit. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44.61 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/09/16 / 2016-09-28 12:50:34 / September 28, 2016 @ 12:50 pm UTC/GMT. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:50:34 / 10:50 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 59 km NW of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.5539° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.9656° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km NW of Farallon de Pajaros, 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 2016-09-28 12:50:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-28 13:09:58 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 385 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 5.813 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us10006tit Id of event.
Event Code 10006tit An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006tit, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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