Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Merizo Village in Guam

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Merizo Village in Guam on Thursday. 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 120.46 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/07/18 / 2018-07-26 10:33:02 / July 26, 2018 @ 10:33 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000gebq. Id of event: us2000gebq. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:33:02 / 8:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 143.9208° East, latitude 13.0123° North, depth = 120.46 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Rita Village, Agat Village, Umatac Village (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Agat Village (c. 5 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Merizo Village (c. 2 200 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Umatac Village (c. 900 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 85 km WSW of Merizo Village, Guam.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	143.9208° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.0123° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	120.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	85km WSW 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	2018-07-26 10:33:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-26 11:47:32	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	284	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	1.086	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	100	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	us2000gebq	Id of event.
Event Code	2000gebq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000gebq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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