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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Dededo Village in Guam

Posted by admin on October 8, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.9942S, 144.5661WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Dededo Village in Guam. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 179.43 km (111 miles). Id of earthquake: us70005rxr. Event ids that are associated: us70005rxr. Exact location of earthquake, 144.5661° East, 13.9942° North, depth 179.43 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/10/19 / 2019-10-08 14:25:50 / October 8, 2019 @ 2:25 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 00:25:50 / 12:25 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 61 km (38 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop). Close country/countries, Guam (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Inarajan Village, Merizo Village, Umatac Village.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 60 km NNW of Dededo Village, Guam. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.5661° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9942° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 179.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km 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 2019-10-08 14:25:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-08 14:43:33 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 0.498 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us70005rxr Id of event.
Event Code 70005rxr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005rxr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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