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

Posted by admin on October 31, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.3204S, 144.1823WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 117 km SSW of Merizo Village, Guam (73 miles). The temblor was picked up at 21:33:44 / 9:33 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000np76. Id of event: us7000np76. Global time and date of event 12/10/24 / 2024-10-12 21:33:44 / October 12, 2024 @ 9:33 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 144.1823 East, latitude 12.3204 North, depth = 38.005 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38.005 km (24 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.1823° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.3204° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.005 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 117 km SSW 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 2024-10-12 21:33:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-31 21:04:42 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.428 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us7000np76 Id of event.
Event Code 7000np76 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000np76, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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