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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 18.5256S, 145.8026WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands (0 miles). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:24:08 / 7:24 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/10/20 / 2020-10-26 07:24:08 / October 26, 2020 @ 7:24 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 208.99 km (130 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 145.8026 East, latitude 18.5256 North, depth = 208.99 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000cd7v. Unique identifier: us6000cd7v.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.8026° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5256° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 208.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Pagan region, 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 2020-10-26 07:24:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-26 07:48:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 340 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 4.989 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us6000cd7v Id of event.
Event Code 6000cd7v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cd7v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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