Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Agrihan in Northern Mariana Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 42 km WNW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands (26 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000blj2. Unique identifier: us2000blj2. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 213.86 km (133 miles). The temblor was picked up at 02:28:55 / 2:28 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/11/17 / 2017-11-01 16:28:55 / November 1, 2017 @ 4:28 pm. Exact location, longitude 145.3123° East, latitude 18.9479° North, depth = 213.86 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 42 km WNW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.3123° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9479° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	213.86 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42km WNW of Agrihan, 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	2017-11-01 16:28:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-20 02:22:03	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	222	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	5.345	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	160	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	us2000blj2	Id of event.
Event Code	2000blj2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000blj2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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