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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near San Diego in Venezuela

Posted by admin on May 23, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.3087S, -67.956WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from San Diego in Venezuela. The temblor was reported at 06:53:07 / 6:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/05/18 / 2018-05-23 11:23:07 / May 23, 2018 @ 11:23 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000eai5. Unique identifier: us1000eai5. Exact location of earthquake, -67.956° West, 10.3087° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 40 km (25 miles) from Maracay (c. 1 754 300 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Valencia (c. 1 385 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Turmero (c. 344 700 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Puerto Cabello (c. 174 000 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Guacara (c. 151 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from El Limón (c. 148 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Palo Negro (c. 128 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Felipe, Las Tejerías, San Juan de los Morros. Nearby country/countries, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km N of San Diego, Venezuela. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.956° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.3087° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km N of San Diego, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-23 11:23:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-23 11:53:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.7 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 315 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 1.359 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us1000eai5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000eai5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eai5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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