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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Yigo Village in Guam


Earthquake location 13.778S, 144.9649WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Yigo Village in Guam on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude 144.9649° East, latitude 13.778° North, depth = 126.447 km. Global time and date of event 21/05/24 / 2024-05-21 06:35:56 / May 21, 2024 @ 6:35 am UTC/GMT. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:35:56 / 6:35 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000mniq. Event ids that are associated: us7000mniq. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 126.447 km (79 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Merizo Village, Umatac Village, Inarajan Village (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 28 km NNE of Yigo Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.9649° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.778° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 126.447 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km NNE of Yigo 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 2024-05-21 06:35:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-10 05:16:00 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 188 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.21 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us7000mniq Id of event.
Event Code 7000mniq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mniq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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