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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Catia La Mar in Venezuela


Earthquake location 11.0738S, -67.4102WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Catia La Mar in Venezuela. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:59:48 / 12:59 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us100030uq. Unique identifier: us100030uq. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.13 km (9 miles). Exact location of event, depth 15.13 km, -67.4102° West, 11.0738° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/08/15 / 2015-08-10 16:59:48 / August 10, 2015 @ 4:59 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palo Negro, San Joaquín, Cagua (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Caracas (c. 3 000 000 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Maracay (c. 1 754 300 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Petare (c. 364 700 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Turmero (c. 344 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Baruta (c. 244 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Puerto Cabello (c. 174 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from El Limón (c. 148 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 66 km NW of Catia La Mar, Venezuela.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4102° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.0738° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km NW of Catia La Mar, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-10 16:59:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-10 19:02:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 354 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.849 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100030uq Id of event.
Event Code 100030uq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100030uq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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