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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Gueiria in Venezuela


Earthquake location 10.8544S, -62.3135WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Gueiria in Venezuela. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/10/18 / 2018-10-28 15:36:11 / October 28, 2018 @ 3:36 pm. The temblor was reported at 11:06:11 / 11:06 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000hi8l. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hi8l. Exact location of event, longitude -62.3135 West, latitude 10.8544 North, depth = 84.7 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 84.7 km (53 miles). 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 Laventille, Port-of-Spain, Petit Valley. Country/countries that might be effected, Trinidad and Tobago (c. 1 229 000 pop), Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Laventille (c. 157 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Port-of-Spain (c. 49 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Güiria (c. 40 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Petit Valley (c. 8 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 30 km N of Gueiria, Venezuela.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -62.3135° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.8544° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km 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 2018-10-28 15:36:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-28 16:33:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 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 1.425 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us1000hi8l Id of event.
Event Code 1000hi8l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hi8l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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