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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Lagunillas in Venezuela


Earthquake location 8.5748S, -71.3478WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Lagunillas in Venezuela. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -71.3478 West, latitude 8.5748 North, depth = 12.2 km. Global time and date of event 09/11/15 / 2015-11-09 13:34:13 / November 9, 2015 @ 1:34 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003vy6. Unique identifier: us10003vy6. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:04:13 / 9:04 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 12.2 km (8 miles).

Close country/countries, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Mérida (c. 300 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Mucumpiz (c. 215 300 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Ejido (c. 106 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from El Vigía (c. 59 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from San Carlos del Zulia (c. 56 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Carlos del Zulia, El Vigía, Mucumpiz.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 8 km NNE of Lagunillas, Venezuela.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.3478° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.5748° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NNE 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 2015-11-09 13:34:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-09 20:19:36 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 326 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 0.769 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us10003vy6 Id of event.
Event Code 10003vy6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003vy6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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