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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Merizo Village in Guam


Earthquake location 12.451S, 143.8966WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 123 km SW of Merizo Village, Guam (76 miles). Global time and date of event 13/11/17 / 2017-11-13 13:14:13 / November 13, 2017 @ 1:14 pm UTC/GMT. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:14:13 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.92 km (14 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000bsxz. Unique identifier: us2000bsxz. Exact location of event, longitude 143.8966 East, latitude 12.451 North, depth = 21.92 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 123 km SW of Merizo Village, Guam. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.8966° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.451° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 123km 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 2017-11-13 13:14:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-22 19:44:52 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 385 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 1.475 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us2000bsxz Id of event.
Event Code 2000bsxz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bsxz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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