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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag strikes near Pagan in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 17.3931S, 147.7527WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was reported 224 km ESE of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands (139 miles) on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/06/19 / 2019-06-10 17:14:55 / June 10, 2019 @ 5:14 pm. Exact location, longitude 147.7527° East, latitude 17.3931° North, depth = 34.14 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:14:55 / 3:14 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70003xrj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003xrj. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.14 km (21 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen 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. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 224 km ESE of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.7527° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.3931° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 224km ESE 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 2019-06-10 17:14:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-10 17:39:25 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 0 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 518 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 2.852 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us70003xrj Id of event.
Event Code 70003xrj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003xrj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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