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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near York Harbor in Maine

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from York Harbor in Maine. The temblor was reported at 15:22:56 / 3:22 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near York Harbor in Maine (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -70.532° West, 43.0469° North, depth 20 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20 km (12 miles). Id of earthquake: at00sqr6q8. Event ids that are associated: at00sqr6q8. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/01/25 / 2025-01-27 15:22:56 / January 27, 2025 @ 3:22 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Boston (c. 617 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from South Boston (c. 571 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Manchester (c. 109 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Lowell (c. 106 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Cambridge (c. 105 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Lynn (c. 90 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Westford, South Boston, Gilford (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 13 km SE of York Harbor, Maine.

Boston Cambridge Gilford Lowell Lynn Maine Manchester South Boston United States Westford York Harbor

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.532° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.0469° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km SE of York Harbor, Maine	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-27 15:22:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-27 15:27:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	39	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	1	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	272	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.9279597	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	122.399990208	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00sqr6q8	Id of event.
Event Code	00sqr6q8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00sqr6q8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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