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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Yigo Village in Guam

Posted by admin on February 9, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.4931S, 145.5832WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Yigo Village in Guam. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/01/25 / 2025-01-22 10:42:54 / January 22, 2025 @ 10:42 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 10:42:54 / 10:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 145.5832° East, latitude 13.4931° North, depth = 61.813 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pacc. Id of event: us7000pacc. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61.813 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Asan-Maina Village, Inarajan Village, Talofofo Village (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 75 km E of Yigo Village, Guam.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 145.5832° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.4931° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.813 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75 km E 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 2025-01-22 10:42:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-09 13:23:42 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 298 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.702 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 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 us7000pacc Id of event.
Event Code 7000pacc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pacc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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