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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Merizo Village in Guam


Earthquake location 12.4775S, 144.2404WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 98 km SSW of Merizo Village, Guam (61 miles). Exact location of event, depth 19.33 km, 144.2404° East, 12.4775° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.33 km (12 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/07/19 / 2019-07-22 18:50:08 / July 22, 2019 @ 6:50 pm. The temblor was detected at 04:50:08 / 4:50 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us60004xgi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60004xgi.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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 respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 98 km SSW of Merizo Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.2404° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.4775° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98km 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 2019-07-22 18:50:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-07 15:00:34 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 1.263 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us60004xgi Id of event.
Event Code 60004xgi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004xgi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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