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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Yigo Mayor’s Office in Guam


Earthquake location 13.5563S, 144.9084WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Yigo Mayor’s Office in Guam on Wednesday. Unique identifier: us10006afg. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006afg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:09:53 / 4:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 144.9084 East, latitude 13.5563 North, depth = 89.49 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/08/16 / 2016-08-03 06:09:53 / August 3, 2016 @ 6:09 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 89.49 km (56 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 9 km (5 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 3 km (2 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop). Nearby 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km NE of Yigo Mayor’s Office, Guam. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.9084° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.5563° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km NE of Yigo Mayor's Office, Guam Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-03 06:09:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-14 22:00:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us10006afg Id of event.
Event Code 10006afg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006afg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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