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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 9 km N of Irapa, Venezuela


Earthquake location 10.6519S, -62.5714WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Irapa in Venezuela. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us60006pda. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006pda. The temblor was picked up at 20:24:24 / 8:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -62.5714 West, latitude 10.6519 North, depth = 108.93 km. Global time and date of event 28/11/19 / 2019-11-28 00:54:24 / November 28, 2019 @ 12:54 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 108.93 km (68 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Carúpano (c. 112 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Güiria (c. 40 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carúpano, Güiria. Nearby country/countries, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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 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: 9 km N of Irapa, Venezuela.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -62.5714° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.6519° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 108.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km N of Irapa, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-28 00:54:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-15 03:15:43 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 298 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 1.724 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us60006pda Id of event.
Event Code 60006pda An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006pda, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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