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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 88 km NE of Yigo Village, Guam

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Earthquake location 14.0211S, 145.5396WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Yigo Village in Guam on Friday. The temblor was reported at 10:29:41 / 10:29 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 107.064 km (67 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/02/25 / 2025-02-21 10:29:41 / February 21, 2025 @ 10:29 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000pw3m. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pw3m. Exact location of earthquake, 145.5396° East, 14.0211° North, depth 107.064 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yigo Village. Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 88 km NE of Yigo Village, Guam. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.5396° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.0211° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 107.064 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88 km NE of Yigo 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 2025-02-21 10:29:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-20 20:14:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 271 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.781 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us6000pw3m Id of event.
Event Code 6000pw3m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pw3m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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