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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Yigo Village in Guam


Earthquake location 13.9139S, 144.8576WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Yigo Village in Guam on Monday. Id of earthquake: us1000hica. Event ids that are associated: us1000hica. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/10/18 / 2018-10-29 02:20:44 / October 29, 2018 @ 2:20 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 144.8576 East, latitude 13.9139 North, depth = 132.73 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 132.73 km (82 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:20:44 / 12:20 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Merizo Village, Inarajan Village, Umatac Village (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Guam (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

Questions or comments?

How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 41 km N of Yigo Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.8576° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9139° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 132.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km N 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 2018-10-29 02:20:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-29 02:50:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 358 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 0.322 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us1000hica Id of event.
Event Code 1000hica An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hica, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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