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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 14 km WNW of Piti Village, Guam

Posted by admin on December 6, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.5023S, 144.5628WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Piti Village in Guam on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 144.5628 East, latitude 13.5023 North, depth = 113.61 km. The temblor was detected at 12:17:48 / 12:17 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 113.61 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/12/16 / 2016-12-06 02:17:48 / December 6, 2016 @ 2:17 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007f3a. Id of event: us10007f3a.

Close country/countries, Guam (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yigo Village, Inarajan Village, Dededo Village. Event epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km WNW of Piti Village, Guam. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.5628° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.5023° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km WNW of Piti 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 2016-12-06 02:17:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-06 02:29:44 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 3.9 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 355 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 0.309 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us10007f3a Id of event.
Event Code 10007f3a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007f3a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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