Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 23 km N of Yigo Village, Guam

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Yigo Village in Guam. Id of earthquake: us70006fkw. Event ids that are associated: us70006fkw. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:56:44 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 144.894 East, latitude 13.7465 North, depth = 137.21 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/11/19 / 2019-11-25 22:56:44 / November 25, 2019 @ 10:56 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 137.21 km (85 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Merizo Village, Umatac Village, Inarajan Village (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guam (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	144.894° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.7465° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	137.21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km N of Yigo 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	2019-11-25 22:56:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-09 02:19:58	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	234	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	0.158	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	110	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	us70006fkw	Id of event.
Event Code	70006fkw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006fkw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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