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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Merizo Village in Guam

Posted by admin on September 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.1534S, 144.5887WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 233 km S of Merizo Village, Guam (145 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 144.5887 East, latitude 11.1534 North, depth = 30.84 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.84 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000h93r. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000h93r. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:29:47 / 1:29 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/09/18 / 2018-09-06 03:29:47 / September 6, 2018 @ 3:29 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 233 km S of Merizo Village, Guam. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.5887° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.1534° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 233km S of Merizo 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 2018-09-06 03:29:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-06 03:42:58 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 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 2.436 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 256 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 us2000h93r Id of event.
Event Code 2000h93r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000h93r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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