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Strong earthquake 6.2 mag, 24 km ENE of Mene Grande, Venezuela

Posted by admin on September 24, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.9222S, -70.7174WA earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Mene Grande in Venezuela on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Mene Grande in Venezuela (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000rcnw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00t3464l, pt25267000, us6000rcnw. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/09/25 / 2025-09-24 22:21:55 / September 24, 2025 @ 10:21 pm. The temblor was reported at 22:21:55 / 10:21 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 7.815 km (5 miles). Exact location, longitude -70.7174° West, latitude 9.9222° North, depth = 7.815 km.

Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Cabimas (c. 200 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Carora (c. 93 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Valera (c. 93 800 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from El Tocuyo (c. 53 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Lagunillas (c. 44 300 pop), 120 km (75 miles) from Quíbor (c. 41 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Trujillo (c. 38 100 pop), 110 km (69 miles) from Santa Rita (c. 31 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quíbor, Santa Rita, El Tocuyo (min 5000 pop). 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 one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 24 km ENE of Mene Grande, Venezuela.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.7174° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.9222° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.815 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km ENE of Mene Grande, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-24 22:21:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-24 22:32:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 1 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 591 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 ,at,pt,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.035 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us6000rcnw Id of event.
Event Code 6000rcnw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00t3464l,pt25267000,us6000rcnw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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