A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Yigo Village in Guam. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/02/16 / 2016-02-27 05:26:42 / February 27, 2016 @ 5:26 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 125.1 km (78 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 144.9278 East, latitude 13.6657 North, depth = 125.1 km. Unique identifier: us10004u3a. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004u3a. The temblor was picked up at 15:26:42 / 3:26 pm (local time epicenter).
The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Merizo Village, Umatac Village, Inarajan Village (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Guam (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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