A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 121 km SW of Merizo Village, Guam (75 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.9283 East, latitude 12.4373 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 27/04/16 / 2016-04-27 09:54:02 / April 27, 2016 @ 9:54 am UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:54:02 / 7:54 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10005e2k. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005e2k.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 121 km SW of Merizo Village, Guam.
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