Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 161 km S of Merizo Village, Guam

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 161 km S of Merizo Village, Guam (100 miles). The temblor was detected at 02:12:31 / 2:12 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10005ii0. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005ii0. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/05/16 / 2016-05-11 16:12:31 / May 11, 2016 @ 4:12 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 144.6805 East, latitude 11.8016 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 161 km S of Merizo Village, Guam.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	144.6805° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.8016° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	161km S of Merizo Village, Guam	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-11 16:12:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-25 00:12:23	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	298	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.786	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	119	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	us10005ii0	Id of event.
Event Code	10005ii0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005ii0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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