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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 35 km NNW of Yigo Village, Guam


Earthquake location 13.8375S, 144.7833WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Yigo Village in Guam on Saturday. Global time and date of event 20/05/16 / 2016-05-20 22:59:27 / May 20, 2016 @ 10:59 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 122.26 km (76 miles). Unique identifier: us20005y4y. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005y4y. Exact location, longitude 144.7833° East, latitude 13.8375° North, depth = 122.26 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:59:27 / 8:59 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Merizo Village, Inarajan Village, Umatac Village (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 35 km NNW of Yigo Village, Guam. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.7833° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.8375° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 122.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km NNW of Yigo 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 2016-05-20 22:59:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-10 23:11:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 0.26 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us20005y4y Id of event.
Event Code 20005y4y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005y4y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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