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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 49 km NE of Gueiria, Venezuela


Earthquake location 10.9466S, -62.0399WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Gueiria in Venezuela. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/01/16 / 2016-01-05 14:33:40 / January 5, 2016 @ 2:33 pm. The temblor was reported at 10:33:40 / 10:33 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 103.19 km (64 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 103.19 km, -62.0399° West, 10.9466° North. Unique identifier: us10004bj4. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004bj4.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mon Repos, San Fernando, Marabella. Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Laventille (c. 157 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Chaguanas (c. 67 400 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Mon Repos (c. 56 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from San Fernando (c. 55 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Port-of-Spain (c. 49 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Güiria (c. 40 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Arima (c. 35 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Trinidad and Tobago (c. 1 229 000 pop), Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 49 km NE of Gueiria, Venezuela. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -62.0399° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.9466° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 103.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km NE of Gueiria, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-05 14:33:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-05 16:25:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 340 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 1.237 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us10004bj4 Id of event.
Event Code 10004bj4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004bj4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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