A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Inarajan Village in Guam. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49.809 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 144.8622 East, latitude 13.0372 North, depth = 49.809 km. The temblor was reported at 05:12:42 / 5:12 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 02/09/25 / 2025-09-02 05:12:42 / September 2, 2025 @ 5:12 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000qt9d. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qt9d.
Country/countries that might be effected, Guam (c. 159 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yigo Village, Dededo Village, Asan-Maina Village (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 53 km (33 miles) from Dededo Village (c. 44 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Yigo Village (c. 20 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village (c. 19 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Mangilao Village (c. 15 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Barrigada Village (c. 8 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Santa Rita Village (c. 7 500 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mongmong-Toto-Maite Village (c. 6 800 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 28 km SSE of Inarajan Village, Guam.
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