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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Santa Rita in Venezuela

Posted by admin on November 23, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.635S, -71.4552WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Santa Rita in Venezuela on Friday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/11/19 / 2019-11-22 15:05:07 / November 22, 2019 @ 3:05 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 214.74 km (133 miles). The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:35:07 / 10:35 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.4552 West, latitude 10.635 North, depth = 214.74 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006c3w. Id of event: us70006c3w.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lagunillas, Cabimas, Maracaibo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 20 km (13 miles) from Maracaibo (c. 2 225 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Cabimas (c. 200 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Lagunillas (c. 44 300 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Santa Rita (c. 31 800 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 12 km NNE of Santa Rita, Venezuela.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4552° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.635° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 214.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NNE of Santa Rita, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-22 15:05:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-23 07:09:30 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 222 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 1.919 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006c3w Id of event.
Event Code 70006c3w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006c3w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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