A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from La Azulita in Venezuela on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -71.3821 West, latitude 8.6294 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us20004ft3. Ids that are associated to the event: us20004ft3. The temblor was detected at 05:19:02 / 5:19 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/12/15 / 2015-12-09 09:49:02 / December 9, 2015 @ 9:49 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Carlos del Zulia, Mucumpiz, El Vigía (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 27 km (16 miles) from Mérida (c. 300 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Mucumpiz (c. 215 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Ejido (c. 106 900 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from El Vigía (c. 59 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from San Carlos del Zulia (c. 56 600 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km SE of La Azulita, Venezuela. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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