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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Yigo Village in Guam

Posted by admin on June 3, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.2665S, 145.1568WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Yigo Village in Guam. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 75.8 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:43:23 / 10:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 145.1568 East, latitude 13.2665 North, depth = 75.8 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/06/18 / 2018-06-03 12:43:23 / June 3, 2018 @ 12:43 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ehvi. Id of event: us1000ehvi.

Epicenter of the event was 44 km (28 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 47 km (30 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Agat Village, Piti Village, Santa Rita Village (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fourty-five 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 41 km SE of Yigo Village, Guam.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.1568° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.2665° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SE of Yigo 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 2018-06-03 12:43:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-03 13:05:12 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 2.2 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 340 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 0.426 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us1000ehvi Id of event.
Event Code 1000ehvi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ehvi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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