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Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Maug Islands region, Northern Mariana Islands


Earthquake location 19.5469S, 145.014WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, Maug Islands region, Northern Mariana Islands (0 miles). Unique identifier: us6000mwrk. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mwrk. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/04/24 / 2024-04-28 20:04:09 / April 28, 2024 @ 8:04 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 145.014 East, latitude 19.5469 North, depth = 239.397 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 239.397 km (149 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 20:04:09 / 8:04 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Maug Islands region, Northern Mariana Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.014° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5469° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 239.397 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Maug Islands 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 2024-04-28 20:04:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-10 14:05:29 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 211 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.346 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us6000mwrk Id of event.
Event Code 6000mwrk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mwrk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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