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


Earthquake location 12.9542S, 144.779WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Inarajan Village in Guam. Global time and date of event 19/03/16 / 2016-03-19 07:12:09 / March 19, 2016 @ 7:12 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005bsp. Id of event: us20005bsp. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 49.26 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 17:12:09 / 5:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 144.779° East, 12.9542° North, depth 49.26 km.

Close country/countries, Guam (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yigo Village, Dededo Village, Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village. Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 35 km S of Inarajan Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.779° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.9542° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km S of Inarajan 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 2016-03-19 07:12:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-14 05:49:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.637 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us20005bsp Id of event.
Event Code 20005bsp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005bsp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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