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.[5]
^Campos, J.; Madariaga, R.; Scholz, C. (1996), "Faulting process of the August 8, 1993, Guam earthquake: A thrust event in an otherwise weakly coupled subduction zone", Journal of Geophysical Research, 101 (B8): 17581–17596,
Bibcode:
1996JGR...10117581C,
doi:
10.1029/96JB00654
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