Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 145.5098 East, latitude 18.9279 North, depth = 196.688 km. Id of earthquake: us6000rke9. Event ids that are associated: us6000rke9. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 196.688 km (122 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/10/25 / 2025-10-09 22:47:08 / October 9, 2025 @ 10:47 pm. The temblor was picked up at 22:47:08 / 10:47 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	145.5098° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9279° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	196.688 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	2025-10-09 22:47:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-07 05:52:16	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	234	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.676	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	122	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	us6000rke9	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rke9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rke9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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