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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Rota in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 13.9498S, 145.7448WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Rota in Northern Mariana Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 92.19 km (57 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:02:41 / 7:02 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/05/18 / 2018-05-09 21:02:41 / May 9, 2018 @ 9:02 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000e1lx. Unique identifier: us1000e1lx. Exact location of event, depth 92.19 km, 145.7448° East, 13.9498° North.

Event epicenter was 109 km (68 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dededo Village, Yigo Village (min 5000 pop).

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 thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 62 km ESE of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.7448° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9498° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 92.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km ESE of Rota, 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 2018-05-09 21:02:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-09 21:26:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 40 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.9 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 448 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 0.923 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us1000e1lx Id of event.
Event Code 1000e1lx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e1lx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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