Earthquake: M 4.4 quake strikes near Yigo Mayor’s Office in Guam

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (mg/mb) was reported Thursday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Yigo Mayor’s Office in Guam. The temblor was reported at 06:42:08 / 6:42 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 122.05 km (76 miles). Global time of event 2015-01-29 08:42:08 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 144.9572 East, latitude 13.7328 North, depth 122.05 km.

Close countries, Guam (c. 159 000 pop). The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Merizo Village, Umatac Village, Inarajan Village.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	144.9572° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.7328° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	122.05 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km NNE of Yigo Mayor's Office, Guam	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-01-29 08:42:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-01-29 09:14:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	14	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.6	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	303	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	1.698	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	98	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	usc000tk0j	Id of event.
Event Code	c000tk0j	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	usc000tk0j	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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