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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Gueiria in Venezuela


Earthquake location 11.0069S, -62.384WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Gueiria in Venezuela. Exact location of event, depth 95.13 km, -62.384° West, 11.0069° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 95.13 km (59 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/01/18 / 2018-01-17 01:49:24 / January 17, 2018 @ 1:49 am. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:49:24 / 9:49 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000ck7q. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ck7q. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Güiria. Epicenter of the earthquake was 49 km (30 miles) from Güiria (c. 40 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 48 km N of Gueiria, Venezuela.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -62.384° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.0069° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km N 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 2018-01-17 01:49:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-17 02:17:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 1.327 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us2000ck7q Id of event.
Event Code 2000ck7q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ck7q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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