Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Agrihan in Northern Mariana Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 36 km NNW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands (22 miles). Global time and date of event 29/04/18 / 2018-04-29 21:53:11 / April 29, 2018 @ 9:53 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 145.5151 East, latitude 19.0659 North, depth = 227.83 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000dxy9. Unique identifier: us1000dxy9. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 227.83 km (142 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:53:11 / 7:53 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 36 km NNW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.5151° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0659° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	227.83 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36km NNW 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	2018-04-29 21:53:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-23 01:01:30	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	234	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	3.812	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	131	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	us1000dxy9	Id of event.
Event Code	1000dxy9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000dxy9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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