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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Farallon de Pajaros in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 22.3948S, 143.5154WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 250 km NW of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands (155 miles) on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 85.12 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/02/20 / 2020-02-09 15:09:45 / February 9, 2020 @ 3:09 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us70007q7u. Unique identifier: us70007q7u. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.5154 East, latitude 22.3948 North, depth = 85.12 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:09:45 / 1:09 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 250 km NW of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.5154° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.3948° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 250km 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 2020-02-09 15:09:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-16 21:05:50 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.834 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us70007q7u Id of event.
Event Code 70007q7u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007q7u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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