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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 114 km SSW of Merizo Village, Guam

Posted by admin on June 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.2593S, 144.4435WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 114 km SSW of Merizo Village, Guam (71 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36.95 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 36.95 km, 144.4435° East, 12.2593° North. The temblor was reported at 12:27:55 / 12:27 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200061q2. Id of event: us200061q2. Global time and date of event 30/05/16 / 2016-05-30 02:27:55 / May 30, 2016 @ 2:27 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 114 km SSW of Merizo Village, Guam. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.4435° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.2593° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 114km SSW 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 2016-05-30 02:27:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-12 23:22:22 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 326 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 1.385 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us200061q2 Id of event.
Event Code 200061q2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200061q2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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