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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Merizo Village in Guam


Earthquake location 12.3918S, 144.2416WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 107 km SSW of Merizo Village, Guam (66 miles) on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 48.9 km (30 miles). Event id: us60008g60. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60008g60. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 05:27:12 / 5:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 144.2416 East, latitude 12.3918 North, depth = 48.9 km. Global time and date of event 15/03/20 / 2020-03-15 19:27:12 / March 15, 2020 @ 7:27 pm UTC/GMT.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 107 km SSW of Merizo Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.2416° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.3918° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 107km SSW 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 2020-03-15 19:27:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-15 20:15:08 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 298 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 1.337 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us60008g60 Id of event.
Event Code 60008g60 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008g60, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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