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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Dededo Village in Guam

Posted by admin on April 21, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.9481S, 144.6337WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Dededo Village in Guam on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/04/19 / 2019-04-21 22:10:40 / April 21, 2019 @ 10:10 pm. Exact location of event, depth 187.24 km, 144.6337° East, 13.9481° North. Event id: us70003a2e. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003a2e. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 187.24 km (116 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 08:10:40 / 8:10 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Inarajan Village, Merizo Village, Umatac Village (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guam (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 52 km NNW of Dededo Village, Guam. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.6337° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9481° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 187.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km NNW of Dededo 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 2019-04-21 22:10:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-21 22:30:23 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 312 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 0.423 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 101 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 us70003a2e Id of event.
Event Code 70003a2e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003a2e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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