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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 143 km SSW of Merizo Village, Guam


Earthquake location 12.1708S, 143.9641WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 143 km SSW of Merizo Village, Guam (89 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.97 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/04/20 / 2020-04-10 17:47:49 / April 10, 2020 @ 5:47 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us70008yeb. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008yeb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:47:49 / 3:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 143.9641° East, 12.1708° North, depth 11.97 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 143 km SSW of Merizo Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.9641° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.1708° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 143km 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 2020-04-10 17:47:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-08 19:03:21 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 284 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 1.663 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us70008yeb Id of event.
Event Code 70008yeb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008yeb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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