A 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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