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Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, 212 km SE of Inarajan Village, Guam

Posted by admin on January 24, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.0661S, 146.2653WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 212 km SE of Inarajan Village, Guam (132 miles) on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 146.2653 East, latitude 12.0661 North, depth = 18.83 km. Id of earthquake: us10007v50. Event ids that are associated: us10007v50. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/01/17 / 2017-01-24 09:38:32 / January 24, 2017 @ 9:38 am. The temblor was reported at 19:38:32 / 7:38 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.83 km (12 miles).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 212 km SE of Inarajan Village, Guam.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.2653° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.0661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 212km SE 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 2017-01-24 09:38:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-24 10:30:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.42 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 466 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 2.036 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us10007v50 Id of event.
Event Code 10007v50 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007v50, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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