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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Lagunillas in Venezuela

Posted by admin on November 7, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.5702S, -71.4176WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Lagunillas in Venezuela on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -71.4176° West, 8.5702° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 03:01:10 / 3:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/11/15 / 2015-11-07 07:31:10 / November 7, 2015 @ 7:31 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10003vgu. Event ids that are associated: us10003vgu. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Fría, San Carlos del Zulia, Mucumpiz (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Mérida (c. 300 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Mucumpiz (c. 215 300 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Ejido (c. 106 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from El Vigía (c. 59 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Carlos del Zulia (c. 56 600 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from La Fría (c. 27 100 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 7 km NNW of Lagunillas, Venezuela.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4176° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.5702° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NNW of Lagunillas, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-07 07:31:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-07 07:47:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -270 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 0.835 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us10003vgu Id of event.
Event Code 10003vgu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003vgu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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