The 1993 Guam earthquake occurred on August 8 at 6:34:26 pm local time with a moment magnitude of 7.8 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The thrust earthquake generated a non-destructive tsunami.
Damage and casualties
The earthquake generated a non-destructive tsunami of about 6 in (15 cm), injured as many as 71 people, and inflicted about $250 million in damage on Guam.
See also
- List of earthquakes in 1993
- List of earthquakes in Guam
References
Further reading
- Brunsdon, D. R. (1993), "The August 8, 1993 Guam earthquake", Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 26 (4): 390–410, doi:10.5459/bnzsee.26.4.390-410
- Lander, James & Whiteside, Lowell & Lockridge, Patricia. (2003). Two decades of global tsunamis 1982–2002. Science of Tsunami Hazards. 21. pp. 30, 31
- Tanioka, Yuichiro; Satake, Kenji; Ruff, Larry (1995), "Analysis of seismological and tsunami data from the 1993 Guam earthquake", Pure and Applied Geophysics, 144 (3–4): 823–837, Bibcode:1995PApGe.144..823T, doi:10.1007/BF00874396, hdl:2027.42/43228, S2CID 410768033–4&rft.pages=823-837&rft.date=1995&rft_id=info:hdl/2027.42/43228&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:41076803#id-name=S2CID&rft_id=info:doi/10.1007/BF00874396&rft_id=info:bibcode/1995PApGe.144..823T&rft.aulast=Tanioka&rft.aufirst=Yuichiro&rft.au=Satake, Kenji&rft.au=Ruff, Larry&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:1993 Guam earthquake">
External links
- Media related to 1993 Guam earthquake at Wikimedia Commons
- M7.8 – Guam region – United States Geological Survey
- The International Seismological Centre has a bibliography and/or authoritative data for this event.
