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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Inarajan Village in Guam

Posted by admin on March 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.9641S, 144.8123WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Inarajan Village in Guam on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 144.8123 East, latitude 12.9641 North, depth = 50.08 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.08 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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: us20005c8v. Unique identifier: us20005c8v. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:18:27 / 7:18 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/03/16 / 2016-03-21 21:18:27 / March 21, 2016 @ 9:18 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yigo Village, Dededo Village, Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (38 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 34 km SSE of Inarajan Village, Guam.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.8123° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.9641° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km SSE of Inarajan 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 2016-03-21 21:18:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-29 01:01:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 0.623 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 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 us20005c8v Id of event.
Event Code 20005c8v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005c8v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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