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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Merizo Village in Guam


Earthquake location 12.0647S, 143.6902WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 170 km SW of Merizo Village, Guam (106 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/09/24 / 2024-09-18 21:57:23 / September 18, 2024 @ 9:57 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 143.6902° East, latitude 12.0647° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 21:57:23 / 9:57 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000ntbd. Event ids that are associated: us6000ntbd.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 170 km SW of Merizo Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 143.6902° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.0647° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 170 km SW 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 2024-09-18 21:57:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-16 00:27:00 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 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.902 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us6000ntbd Id of event.
Event Code 6000ntbd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ntbd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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