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


Earthquake location 13.0443S, 143.7599WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 101 km WSW of Merizo Village, Guam (63 miles). Global time and date of event 02/09/15 / 2015-09-02 15:53:33 / September 2, 2015 @ 3:53 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 143.7599 East, latitude 13.0443 North, depth = 133.5 km. The temblor was reported at 01:53:33 / 1:53 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 133.5 km (83 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20003jmz. Unique identifier: us20003jmz.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 101 km WSW of Merizo Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.7599° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0443° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 133.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101km 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 2015-09-02 15:53:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-24 00:07:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 1.207 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us20003jmz Id of event.
Event Code 20003jmz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003jmz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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