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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near El Pilar in Venezuela


Earthquake location 10.4078S, -63.1155WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from El Pilar in Venezuela. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:09:51 / 1:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -63.1155 West, latitude 10.4078 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 07/01/19 / 2019-01-07 17:39:51 / January 7, 2019 @ 5:39 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j8ay. Id of event: us2000j8ay. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Maturín (c. 411 000 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Carúpano (c. 112 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Güiria (c. 40 000 pop). Close country/countries, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Güiria, Maturín, Carúpano.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 14 km SSE of El Pilar, Venezuela.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.1155° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.4078° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SSE 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 2019-01-07 17:39:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-31 17:33:09 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 284 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 2.234 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us2000j8ay Id of event.
Event Code 2000j8ay An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j8ay, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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