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code 2005/02/02 02:30:25.94 14.0800 144.7150 158.70 6.30 Mw 289 1.06 NEI 200502024010 code



This earthquake happened near Guam on Feb 2nd at around 02:30:25 with a magnitude of 6.3. The distance between the earthquake site and Hanford, Washington where LIGO is was about 9362.71 km. The distance was mostly over water (p waves - 5-8 km/sec)so 9362.71/8=1170.34 sec. 1170.34 sec/60 sec=**19.5 minutes (the time it took for the LIGO site to detect the quake). The bluestone site shows that the quake was detected around 2:45 or 15 minutes after the earthquake happened, and 19.5 minutes is around that.**