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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Merizo Village in Guam


Earthquake location 12.1562S, 144.0054WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 142 km SSW of Merizo Village, Guam (88 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, 144.0054° East, 12.1562° North, depth 9.71 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:39:52 / 3:39 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us200081jw. Event ids that are associated: us200081jw. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.71 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/12/16 / 2016-12-10 05:39:52 / December 10, 2016 @ 5:39 am.

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 fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 142 km SSW of Merizo Village, Guam. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.0054° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.1562° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 142km 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 2016-12-10 05:39:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-08 06:14:00 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 326 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 1.654 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 101 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 us200081jw Id of event.
Event Code 200081jw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200081jw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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