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Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, 22 km WSW of Araya, Venezuela


Earthquake location 10.4726S, -64.438WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Araya in Venezuela. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005drn. Id of event: us70005drn. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 09/09/19 / 2019-09-09 18:05:17 / September 9, 2019 @ 6:05 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.438 West, latitude 10.4726 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 13:35:17 / 1:35 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Barcelona (c. 424 800 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Puerto La Cruz (c. 370 000 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Cumaná (c. 257 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Porlamar (c. 87 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from La Asunción (c. 35 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Juan Griego (c. 28 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Asunción, Juan Griego, Porlamar (min 5000 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 22 km WSW of Araya, Venezuela.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.438° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.4726° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km WSW of Araya, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-09 18:05:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-09 18:21:24 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 465 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 3.19 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 22 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 us70005drn Id of event.
Event Code 70005drn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005drn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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