Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near San Jose Village in Northern Mariana Islands

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from San Jose Village in Northern Mariana Islands. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 127.319 km (79 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 01:53:54 / 1:53 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 145.9817 East, latitude 14.6384 North, depth = 127.319 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/11/25 / 2025-11-11 01:53:54 / November 11, 2025 @ 1:53 am. Unique identifier: us7000reg6. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000reg6.

Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Saipan (c. 48 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from San Jose Village (c. 15 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Northern Mariana Islands (c. 54 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saipan, San Jose Village (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 53 km SE of San Jose Village, Northern Mariana Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.9817° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.6384° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	127.319 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53 km SE 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	2025-11-11 01:53:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-07 22:39:46	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	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.62	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	152	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	us7000reg6	Id of event.
Event Code	7000reg6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000reg6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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