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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 35 km NNE of Yigo Village, Guam


Earthquake location 13.8062S, 145.0735WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Yigo Village in Guam. Event id: us10005d9v. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005d9v. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:56:03 / 5:56 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 115.69 km (72 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 145.0735° East, 13.8062° North, depth 115.69 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/05/16 / 2016-05-03 07:56:03 / May 3, 2016 @ 7:56 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 41 km (25 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Merizo Village, Umatac Village, Inarajan Village (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 35 km NNE of Yigo Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.0735° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.8062° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km NNE 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 2016-05-03 07:56:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-03 08:27:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.293 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us10005d9v Id of event.
Event Code 10005d9v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005d9v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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