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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Yigo Village in Guam


Earthquake location 13.4672S, 144.9584WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Yigo Village in Guam. Unique identifier: us2000g0pm. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000g0pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 64.94 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 144.9584 East, latitude 13.4672 North, depth = 64.94 km. Global time and date of event 09/07/18 / 2018-07-09 08:31:22 / July 9, 2018 @ 8:31 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:31:22 / 6:31 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 14 km (9 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Merizo Village, Umatac Village, Agat Village.

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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km SE of Yigo Village, Guam. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.9584° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.4672° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SE 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 2018-07-09 08:31:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-09 21:28:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 271 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 0.149 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us2000g0pm Id of event.
Event Code 2000g0pm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g0pm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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