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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near El Pilar in Venezuela


Earthquake location 10.4803S, -63.0834WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from El Pilar in Venezuela. Id of earthquake: us2000j40z. Event ids that are associated: us2000j40z. Exact location of event, longitude -63.0834 West, latitude 10.4803 North, depth = 10 km. 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: 15/01/19 / 2019-01-15 04:59:24 / January 15, 2019 @ 4:59 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:29:24 / 12:29 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Maturín (c. 411 000 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Carúpano (c. 112 100 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Porlamar (c. 87 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Güiria (c. 40 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Porlamar, Güiria, Maturín (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km SE of El Pilar, Venezuela.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.0834° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.4803° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SE of El Pilar, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-15 04:59:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-15 05:09:43 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 369 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 2.159 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 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 us2000j40z Id of event.
Event Code 2000j40z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j40z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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