Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near San Jose Village in Northern Mariana Islands

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from San Jose Village in Northern Mariana Islands. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/12/24 / 2024-12-17 20:53:15 / December 17, 2024 @ 8:53 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 145.569 East, latitude 14.1745 North, depth = 100.972 km. The temblor was detected at 20:53:15 / 8:53 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000phgh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000phgh. The epicenter was at a depth of 100.972 km (63 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Jose Village. The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from San Jose Village (c. 15 000 pop). Close country/countries, Northern Mariana Islands (c. 54 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 87 km S of San Jose Village, Northern Mariana Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.569° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.1745° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	100.972 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	87 km S of San Jose Village, 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	2024-12-17 20:53:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-06 20:58:27	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	259	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.895	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	92	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	us6000phgh	Id of event.
Event Code	6000phgh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000phgh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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