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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Merizo Village in Guam


Earthquake location 12.8307S, 143.3672WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 149 km WSW of Merizo Village, Guam (93 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/05/18 / 2018-05-03 19:09:01 / May 3, 2018 @ 7:09 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 143.3672° East, latitude 12.8307° North, depth = 107.08 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 107.08 km (67 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 05:09:01 / 5:09 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000e1vj. Unique identifier: us1000e1vj.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 149 km WSW of Merizo Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.3672° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.8307° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 107.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 149km 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 2018-05-03 19:09:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-15 23:08:02 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 312 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 1.645 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 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 us1000e1vj Id of event.
Event Code 1000e1vj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e1vj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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