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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Saipan in Northern Mariana Islands

Posted by admin on February 15, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.5157S, 145.4755WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 256 km N of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands (159 miles) on Friday. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:01:18 / 8:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 145.4755° East, 17.5157° North, depth 249.888 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 249.888 km (155 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 24/01/25 / 2025-01-24 20:01:18 / January 24, 2025 @ 8:01 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000paf6. Unique identifier: us7000paf6.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 256 km N of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.4755° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.5157° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 249.888 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 256 km N of Saipan, 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 2025-01-24 20:01:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-15 23:11:50 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.282 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 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 us7000paf6 Id of event.
Event Code 7000paf6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000paf6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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