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

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 44 km W of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands (27 miles) on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 503.17 km (313 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 145.2443° East, latitude 18.8139° North, depth = 503.17 km. Unique identifier: us2000fxja. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000fxja. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/06/18 / 2018-06-29 03:01:35 / June 29, 2018 @ 3:01 am. The temblor was reported at 13:01:35 / 1:01 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 44 km W of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.2443° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8139° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	503.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44km W 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	2018-06-29 03:01:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-28 23:49:16	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	39.972	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	148	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	us2000fxja	Id of event.
Event Code	2000fxja	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000fxja,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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