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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Valera in Venezuela

Posted by admin on November 24, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.3144S, -70.6351WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Valera in Venezuela. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:11:13 / 4:11 pm (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: 24/11/18 / 2018-11-24 20:41:13 / November 24, 2018 @ 8:41 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.16 km (13 miles). Event id: us1000hw7f. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hw7f. Exact location of event, longitude -70.6351 West, latitude 9.3144 North, depth = 20.16 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Barinas (c. 353 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Mérida (c. 300 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Alto Barinas (c. 284 300 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Guanare (c. 112 300 pop), 3 km (2 miles) from Valera (c. 93 800 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from El Tocuyo (c. 53 100 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Trujillo (c. 38 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Tocuyo, Guanare, Mérida. Close 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 one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 3 km W of Valera, Venezuela.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.6351° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.3144° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km W of Valera, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-24 20:41:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-24 20:59:52 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 400 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 0.427 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 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 mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hw7f Id of event.
Event Code 1000hw7f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hw7f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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