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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Inarajan Village in Guam

Posted by admin on May 17, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.0148S, 145.5567WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Inarajan Village in Guam on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 10:23:48 / 10:23 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 145.5567° East, 13.0148° North, depth 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mule. Unique identifier: us6000mule. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/04/24 / 2024-04-28 10:23:48 / April 28, 2024 @ 10:23 am.

The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Chalan Pago-Ordot Village (c. 6 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guam (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village, Chalan Pago-Ordot Village, Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 92 km ESE of Inarajan Village, Guam.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.5567° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0148° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92 km ESE of Inarajan 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 2024-04-28 10:23:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-28 11:39:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 67 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.88 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us6000mule Id of event.
Event Code 6000mule An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mule, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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