Guam got a pretty strong earthquake at 12:30 this afternoon. I was eating lunch at Shirley’s when it hit. Originally pegged as a magnitude 6.0 quake, it was just upgraded to 6.2 magnitude.
It was certainly the strongest quake I’ve felt in about a year or so. A strong initial sideways jolt, then almost 45 seconds of slowly decreasing up and down temblors. Here’s the official USGS report on the quake:
Magnitude 6.2
Date-Time Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 02:30:25 (UTC)
= Coordinated Universal Time
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 12:30:25 PM
= local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 14.101°N, 144.732°E
Depth 153.9 km (95.6 miles)
Region ROTA REGION, NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
Distances
50 km (30 miles) W of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands
70 km (45 miles) N of HAGATNA, Guam
160 km (100 miles) SW of SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands
270 km (165 miles) SSW of Anatahan, Northern Mariana IslandsLocation Uncertainty horizontal +/- 10 km (6.2 miles); depth +/- 10.8 km (6.7 miles)
Parameters Nst=154, Nph=154, Dmin=58.5 km, Rmss=1.04 sec, Gp= 29°,
M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)Event ID usuaae
Felt Reports Felt on Guam, Rota and Saipan.