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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Merizo Village in Guam

Posted by admin on September 7, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.6007S, 142.4548WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 251 km WSW of Merizo Village, Guam (156 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000ha0u. Unique identifier: us2000ha0u. The temblor was picked up at 10:51:28 / 10:51 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 134.44 km (84 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/09/18 / 2018-09-07 01:51:28 / September 7, 2018 @ 1:51 am. Exact location, longitude 142.4548° East, latitude 12.6007° North, depth = 134.44 km.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 251 km WSW of Merizo Village, Guam.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 142.4548° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.6007° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 134.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 251km WSW 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 2018-09-07 01:51:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-07 02:04:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 385 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 2.548 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 us2000ha0u Id of event.
Event Code 2000ha0u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ha0u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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