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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 23 km ENE of Yigo Village, Guam


Earthquake location 13.6014S, 145.0987WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Yigo Village in Guam on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us7000nsmy. Event ids that are associated: us7000nsmy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 127.823 km (79 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/10/24 / 2024-10-31 15:48:09 / October 31, 2024 @ 3:48 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:48:09 / 3:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 145.0987 East, latitude 13.6014 North, depth = 127.823 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Merizo Village, Umatac Village, Agat Village (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Guam (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 30 km (18 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 23 km ENE of Yigo Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.0987° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.6014° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127.823 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23 km ENE 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 2024-10-31 15:48:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-23 15:52:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 312 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.224 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us7000nsmy Id of event.
Event Code 7000nsmy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nsmy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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