Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Moderate World Earthquakes Magnitude 5–5.9

Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Yigo Village in Guam

Posted by admin on January 5, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.2009S, 145.6375WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Yigo Village in Guam on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 145.6375° East, latitude 13.2009° North, depth = 19.384 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/12/24 / 2024-12-16 14:07:48 / December 16, 2024 @ 2:07 pm. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:07:48 / 2:07 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.384 km (12 miles). Event id: us6000ph8y. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ph8y.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Asan-Maina Village, Hagåtña, Agana Heights Village (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Chalan Pago-Ordot Village (c. 6 800 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

Did you feel it?

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: 89 km ESE of Yigo Village, Guam.

Copyright © 2025 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.6375° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.2009° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.384 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89 km ESE 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 2024-12-16 14:07:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-05 21:36:25 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 385 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.842 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us6000ph8y Id of event.
Event Code 6000ph8y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ph8y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2025 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today