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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Pagan in Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 18.3046S, 145.8602WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 23 km NNE of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands (14 miles). The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:00:33 / 1:00 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 190.92 km (119 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/03/18 / 2018-03-11 03:00:33 / March 11, 2018 @ 3:00 am. Exact location of event, longitude 145.8602 East, latitude 18.3046 North, depth = 190.92 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d6h9. Id of event: us1000d6h9.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km NNE of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.8602° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.3046° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 190.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NNE of Pagan, 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 2018-03-11 03:00:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-21 03:41:44 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 3.047 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us1000d6h9 Id of event.
Event Code 1000d6h9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d6h9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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