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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near San Jose Village in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 14.6372S, 145.7131WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from San Jose Village in Northern Mariana Islands. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000re53. Unique identifier: us7000re53. The temblor was detected at 12:26:00 / 12:26 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 115.547 km (72 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 145.7131 East, latitude 14.6372 North, depth = 115.547 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/11/25 / 2025-11-27 12:26:00 / November 27, 2025 @ 12:26 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Saipan, San Jose Village (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Saipan (c. 48 200 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from San Jose Village (c. 15 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Northern Mariana Islands (c. 54 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 37 km SSE of San Jose Village, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.7131° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.6372° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115.547 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37 km SSE of San Jose Village, 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 2025-11-27 12:26:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-27 13:44:25 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 326 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 62 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.598 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 70 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 us7000re53 Id of event.
Event Code 7000re53 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000re53, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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