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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 6 km NW of Mene Grande, Venezuela


Earthquake location 9.8894S, -70.9702WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Mene Grande in Venezuela. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/09/25 / 2025-09-30 11:06:21 / September 30, 2025 @ 11:06 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000rip9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rip9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -70.9702° West, 9.8894° North, depth 10 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:06:21 / 11:06 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Rita, Trujillo, Cabimas. Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Cabimas (c. 200 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Valera (c. 93 800 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Lagunillas (c. 44 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Trujillo (c. 38 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Santa Rita (c. 31 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km NW of Mene Grande, Venezuela.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.9702° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.8894° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km NW 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 2025-09-30 11:06:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-28 18:08:29 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 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 312 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.053 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 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 us6000rip9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rip9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rip9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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