Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Merizo Village in Guam

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Merizo Village in Guam. Global time and date of event 25/11/15 / 2015-11-25 02:22:52 / November 25, 2015 @ 2:22 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us100041r0. Ids that are associated to the event: us100041r0. Exact location of earthquake, 144.2804° East, 13.1543° North, depth 126.75 km. The temblor was reported at 12:22:52 / 12:22 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 126.75 km (79 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yigo Village, Dededo Village, Barrigada Village. Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 43 km WSW of Merizo Village, Guam.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	144.2804° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.1543° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	126.75 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km 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	2015-11-25 02:22:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-09 05:22:09	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	222	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	0.717	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	121	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	us100041r0	Id of event.
Event Code	100041r0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100041r0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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