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Moderate earthquake: M5.6 quake has struck near San Diego in Venezuela

Posted by admin on December 27, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.2861S, -67.9182WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from San Diego in Venezuela. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/12/18 / 2018-12-27 08:59:11 / December 27, 2018 @ 8:59 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000iy0q. Event ids that are associated: us2000iy0q. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 04:29:11 / 4:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.9182° West, latitude 10.2861° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 36 km (22 miles) from Maracay (c. 1 754 300 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Valencia (c. 1 385 100 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Turmero (c. 344 700 pop), 114 km (71 miles) from Cúa (c. 182 600 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Puerto Cabello (c. 174 000 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Guacara (c. 151 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from El Limón (c. 148 200 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Los Teques (c. 140 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cúa, La Guaira, Maiquetía.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 4 km NE of San Diego, Venezuela.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9182° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.2861° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NE 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 2018-12-27 08:59:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-27 09:26:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 65 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.958 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level pending 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 520 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 1.339 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us2000iy0q Id of event.
Event Code 2000iy0q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iy0q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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