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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 298 km WSW of Merizo Village, Guam


Earthquake location 12.0132S, 142.2383WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 298 km WSW of Merizo Village, Guam (185 miles) on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/03/19 / 2019-03-28 16:18:13 / March 28, 2019 @ 4:18 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 56.29 km (35 miles). The temblor was picked up at 01:18:13 / 1:18 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000k6lx. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000k6lx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 142.2383 East, latitude 12.0132 North, depth = 56.29 km.

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 298 km WSW of Merizo Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.2383° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.0132° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 298km 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 2019-03-28 16:18:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-28 16:47:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 385 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 3.005 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us2000k6lx Id of event.
Event Code 2000k6lx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000k6lx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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