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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Inarajan Village in Guam


Earthquake location 12.3214S, 144.8473WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 105 km S of Inarajan Village, Guam (65 miles). The temblor was reported at 16:41:48 / 4:41 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us70005b4r. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005b4r. Exact location of event, longitude 144.8473 East, latitude 12.3214 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/09/19 / 2019-09-02 06:41:48 / September 2, 2019 @ 6:41 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 three and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 105 km S of Inarajan Village, Guam.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.8473° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.3214° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 105km S of Inarajan 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 2019-09-02 06:41:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-02 06:58:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 385 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 1.26 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us70005b4r Id of event.
Event Code 70005b4r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005b4r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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