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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Inarajan Village in Guam


Earthquake location 12.9042S, 145.4669WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Inarajan Village in Guam. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/05/18 / 2018-05-16 07:24:34 / May 16, 2018 @ 7:24 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000e66h. Id of event: us1000e66h. Exact location, longitude 145.4669° East, latitude 12.9042° North, depth = 45.77 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:24:34 / 5:24 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.77 km (28 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Umatac Village, Chalan Pago-Ordot Village, Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 96 km (60 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Chalan Pago-Ordot Village (c. 6 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Yona Village (c. 6 500 pop).

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

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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: 87 km ESE of Inarajan Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.4669° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.9042° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km ESE 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 2018-05-16 07:24:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-16 07:52:08 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 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 0.896 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us1000e66h Id of event.
Event Code 1000e66h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e66h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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