M5.1 Earthquake Near 77 km SSW of San Jose Village, Northern Mariana Islands Draws 4 Felt Reports
USGS Week reports M5.1 near 77 km SSW of San Jose Village, Northern Mariana Islands, with a 110.8 km catalog depth and 4 felt reports.
The event began at Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:06:40 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 5.1, 110.8 km catalog depth, and coordinates 14.287, 145.473.
The catalog location label is 77 km SSW of San Jose Village, Northern Mariana Islands; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is an intermediate-depth event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 2.82e+12 joules, or about 674 tons of TNT equivalent; that calculation describes source energy, not local damage.
4 public felt reports are attached to the current catalog entry. Other attached observation fields include catalog significance score 402. No official casualty or damage statement is attached to the normalized event evidence.
The USGS Week catalog currently marks the solution as reviewed. No station-count, phase-count, residual, gap, or uncertainty fields were supplied in the normalized record. 1 alternate network solution is retained for comparison.
The provider record does not carry a tsunami flag at publication time. Magnitude, depth, and location can change as monitoring networks add observations and review the solution.
At a glance
- Magnitude 5.1
- 110.8 km catalog depth
- 2.82e+12 J magnitude-derived energy estimate
- Origin: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:06:40 GMT
- 4 attached felt reports
- USGS Week monitoring record