Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands (0 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 297.957 km (185 miles). The temblor was picked up at 13:53:08 / 1:53 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000mtif. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mtif. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 145.4264 East, latitude 18.7449 North, depth = 297.957 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/04/24 / 2024-04-16 13:53:08 / April 16, 2024 @ 1:53 pm UTC/GMT.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.4264° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.7449° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	297.957 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Pagan region, 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	2024-04-16 13:53:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-11 17:08:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.502	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	98	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	us6000mtif	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mtif	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mtif,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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