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Moderate earthquake 5.7 mag, 207 km SW of Merizo Village, Guam

Posted by admin on December 24, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.782S, 143.505WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) strikes 207 km SW of Merizo Village, Guam (129 miles) on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: pt25358002. Unique identifier: pt25358002. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 23.2 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 15:00:38 / 3:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 143.505 East, latitude 11.782 North, depth = 23.2 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/12/25 / 2025-12-24 15:00:38 / December 24, 2025 @ 3:00 pm.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. 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: 207 km SW of Merizo Village, Guam.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.505° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.782° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 207 km SW 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 2025-12-24 15:00:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-24 15:13:40 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 500 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pt The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169.199986464 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pt25358002 Id of event.
Event Code 25358002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt25358002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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