Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/01/25 / 2025-01-16 15:06:13 / January 16, 2025 @ 3:06 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pm50. Id of event: us6000pm50. The temblor was detected at 15:06:13 / 3:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 145.6338° East, 18.7005° North, depth 96.458 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 96.458 km (60 miles).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.6338° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.7005° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	96.458 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	2025-01-16 15:06:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-27 17:49:38	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	222	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	3.444	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	144	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	us6000pm50	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pm50	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pm50,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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