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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 24 km S of Inarajan Village, Guam

Posted by admin on May 25, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.0535S, 144.723WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Inarajan Village in Guam. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 144.723 East, latitude 13.0535 North, depth = 46.77 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/05/17 / 2017-05-25 17:03:58 / May 25, 2017 @ 5:03 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008vcv. Unique identifier: us10008vcv. The temblor was detected at 03:03:58 / 3:03 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 46.77 km (29 miles).

Close country/countries, Guam (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yigo Village, Dededo Village, Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 24 km S of Inarajan Village, Guam.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.723° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0535° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km S 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 2017-05-25 17:03:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-25 18:41:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 354 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 0.551 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us10008vcv Id of event.
Event Code 10008vcv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008vcv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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