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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 152 km W of Merizo Village, Guam


Earthquake location 12.9957S, 143.2915WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 152 km W of Merizo Village, Guam (94 miles). Exact location, longitude 143.2915° East, latitude 12.9957° North, depth = 207.62 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/05/19 / 2019-05-17 06:35:06 / May 17, 2019 @ 6:35 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 16:35:06 / 4:35 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us60003rps. Ids that are associated to the event: us60003rps. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 207.62 km (129 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 152 km W of Merizo Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.2915° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.9957° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 207.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 152km W 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 2019-05-17 06:35:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-12 06:33:26 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 1.644 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us60003rps Id of event.
Event Code 60003rps An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60003rps, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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