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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Merizo Village in Guam

Posted by admin on January 26, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.0477S, 144.6729WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Merizo Village in Guam. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 51.938 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/01/25 / 2025-01-16 19:37:01 / January 16, 2025 @ 7:37 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 144.6729 East, latitude 13.0477 North, depth = 51.938 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:37:01 / 7:37 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000pm55. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pm55.

Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yigo Village, Dededo Village, Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Guam (c. 159 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 24 km S of Merizo Village, Guam.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 144.6729° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0477° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.938 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km S of Merizo 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 2025-01-16 19:37:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-26 15:42:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 259 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.571 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us6000pm55 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pm55 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pm55, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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