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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands

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Earthquake location 18.7106S, 145.5349WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands (0 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000qgvr. Event ids that are associated: us6000qgvr. The temblor was picked up at 20:31:03 / 8:31 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 210.582 km (131 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/05/25 / 2025-05-16 20:31:03 / May 16, 2025 @ 8:31 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 145.5349 East, latitude 18.7106 North, depth = 210.582 km.

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.5349° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7106° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 210.582 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 2025-05-16 20:31:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-09 21:41:19 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.459 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us6000qgvr Id of event.
Event Code 6000qgvr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qgvr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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