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Moderate earthquake 5.6 mag, 103 km S of Merizo Village, Guam


Earthquake location 12.3388S, 144.5255WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was reported 103 kilometers (64 miles) from Merizo Village in Guam on Wednesday. Unique identifier: us70004lw5. Ids that are associated to the event: pt19197001, us70004lw5. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.63 km (5 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:03:51 / 8:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 144.5255 East, latitude 12.3388 North, depth = 7.63 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/07/19 / 2019-07-16 22:03:51 / July 16, 2019 @ 10:03 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 107 km (66 miles) from Inarajan Village (c. 3 100 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Merizo Village (c. 2 200 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Umatac Village (c. 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Umatac Village, Inarajan Village, Merizo Village (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 103 km S of Merizo Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.5255° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.3388° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103km S 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 2019-07-16 22:03:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-16 22:22:07 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 482 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 ,pt,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 1.287 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70004lw5 Id of event.
Event Code 70004lw5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19197001,us70004lw5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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