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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Inarajan Village in Guam


Earthquake location 13.1822S, 144.7686WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Inarajan Village in Guam on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 144.7686° East, latitude 13.1822° North, depth = 60.21 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bh3j. Id of event: us2000bh3j. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:38:21 / 2:38 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.21 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/11/17 / 2017-11-02 16:38:21 / November 2, 2017 @ 4:38 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yigo Village, Dededo Village, Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop). Event epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 10 km SSE of Inarajan Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.7686° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.1822° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km 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 2017-11-02 16:38:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-02 20:53:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 314 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 0.416 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 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 us2000bh3j Id of event.
Event Code 2000bh3j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bh3j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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