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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near York Harbor in Maine

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from York Harbor in Maine. Exact location of event, longitude -70.5515 West, latitude 43.0637 North, depth = 13.186 km. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:22:56 / 3:22 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.186 km (8 miles). Unique identifier: us6000pmk3. Ids that are associated to the event: at00sqr6q8, us6000pmk3. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/01/25 / 2025-01-27 15:22:56 / January 27, 2025 @ 3:22 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lexington, Somerville, Arlington (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Manchester (c. 109 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Lowell (c. 106 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Lynn (c. 90 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Nashua (c. 86 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Lawrence (c. 76 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Somerville (c. 75 800 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 11 km SE of York Harbor, Maine.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.5515° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	43.0637° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.186 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11 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 15:37:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5889	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5	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	734	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	,at,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.859	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	138	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	us6000pmk3	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pmk3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00sqr6q8,us6000pmk3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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