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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Inarajan Village in Guam


Earthquake location 12.9949S, 145.5427WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Inarajan Village in Guam. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/11/15 / 2015-11-02 02:33:36 / November 2, 2015 @ 2:33 am. The temblor was detected at 12:33:36 / 12:33 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 37.15 km (23 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 145.5427° East, 12.9949° North, depth 37.15 km. Unique identifier: us200041zl. Ids that are associated to the event: us200041zl.

The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Yona Village (c. 6 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Talofofo Village (c. 3 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Inarajan Village (c. 3 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guam (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yona Village, Mangilao Village, Talofofo Village (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 91 km ESE of Inarajan Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.5427° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.9949° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91km ESE of Inarajan 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 2015-11-02 02:33:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-20 01:07:10 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 0.883 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us200041zl Id of event.
Event Code 200041zl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200041zl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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