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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 73 km ESE of Yigo Village, Guam

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Earthquake location 13.3807S, 145.5516WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Yigo Village in Guam on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/07/25 / 2025-07-25 20:59:50 / July 25, 2025 @ 8:59 pm. The temblor was reported at 20:59:50 / 8:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 145.5516 East, latitude 13.3807 North, depth = 74.932 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000qyxz. Event ids that are associated: us6000qyxz. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 74.932 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Piti Village, Asan-Maina Village, Inarajan Village. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days sixty-five 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 73 km ESE of Yigo Village, Guam.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.5516° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.3807° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.932 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73 km ESE 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 2025-07-25 20:59:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-19 20:36:47 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 298 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 57 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.696 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us6000qyxz Id of event.
Event Code 6000qyxz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qyxz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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