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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag strikes near Merizo Village in Guam

Posted by admin on June 26, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.0768S, 143.2896WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 199 km SW of Merizo Village, Guam (124 miles). The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:18:47 / 12:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 143.2896 East, latitude 12.0768 North, depth = 42.22 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.22 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/06/16 / 2016-06-26 14:18:47 / June 26, 2016 @ 2:18 pm. Unique identifier: us200066yg. Ids that are associated to the event: us200066yg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 199 km SW of Merizo Village, Guam.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.2896° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.0768° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 199km SW 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 2016-06-26 14:18:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-26 14:44:20 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 2.62 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 465 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 2.152 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us200066yg Id of event.
Event Code 200066yg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200066yg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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