A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Lagunillas in Venezuela on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.33 km (7 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -71.34 West, latitude 8.5411 North, depth = 11.33 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:18:44 / 1:18 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/11/15 / 2015-11-09 17:48:44 / November 9, 2015 @ 5:48 pm. Id of earthquake: us10003w0u. Event ids that are associated: us10003w0u.
Nearby country/countries, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Carlos del Zulia, El Vigía, Mucumpiz. Event epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Mérida (c. 300 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Mucumpiz (c. 215 300 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ejido (c. 106 900 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from El Vigía (c. 59 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Carlos del Zulia (c. 56 600 pop).
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 six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 6 km ENE of Lagunillas, Venezuela.
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