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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Merizo Village in Guam


Earthquake location 11.9991S, 143.0698WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 223 km SW of Merizo Village, Guam (139 miles) on Wednesday. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:23:12 / 7:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 143.0698 East, latitude 11.9991 North, depth = 18.64 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008vkd. Id of event: us20008vkd. Global time and date of event 29/03/17 / 2017-03-29 09:23:12 / March 29, 2017 @ 9:23 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.64 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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: 223 km SW of Merizo Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.0698° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.9991° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 223km 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 2017-03-29 09:23:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-29 09:38:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 416 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 2.361 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us20008vkd Id of event.
Event Code 20008vkd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008vkd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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