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M5.1 Earthquake Near 162 km SSW of Merizo Village, Guam Draws 3 Felt Reports

USGS Week reports M5.1 near 162 km SSW of Merizo Village, Guam, with a 10.0 km catalog depth and 3 felt reports.

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News card for M5.1 Earthquake Near 162 km SSW of Merizo Village, Guam Draws 3 Felt Reports

The event began at Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:28:15 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 5.1, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 12.027, 143.874.

The catalog location label is 162 km SSW of Merizo Village, Guam; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 2.82e+12 joules, or about 674 tons of TNT equivalent; that calculation describes source energy, not local damage.

3 public felt reports are attached to the current catalog entry. Other attached observation fields include catalog significance score 401. No official casualty or damage statement is attached to the normalized event evidence.

The USGS Week catalog currently marks the solution as reviewed. No station-count, phase-count, residual, gap, or uncertainty fields were supplied in the normalized record. No alternate network solution is attached to this record.

The provider record does not carry a tsunami flag at publication time. Magnitude, depth, and location can change as monitoring networks add observations and review the solution.

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US event record: 162 km SSW of Merizo Village, Guam — USGS Week
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