Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake strikes near Irapa in Venezuela

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (mg/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Irapa in Venezuela. The temblor was reported at 21:54:16 / 9:54 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 76.54 km (48 miles). Global time of event 16/04/15 / 2015-04-16 02:24:16 / April 16, 2015 @ 2:24 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -62.4587 West, latitude 10.8593 North, depth 76.54 km, unique identifier, us200026w5.

Close countries, Trinidad and Tobago (c. 1 229 000 pop), Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). The epicenter was 107 km (67 miles) from Laventille (c. 157 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Carúpano (c. 112 100 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Port-of-Spain (c. 49 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Güiria (c. 40 000 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Petit Valley (c. 8 100 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Laventille, Port-of-Spain, Petit Valley.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-62.4587° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.8593° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	76.54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34km NNE 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	2015-04-16 02:24:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-04-16 02:41:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-270	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	45	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	435	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	1.49	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	32	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	us200026w5	Id of event.
Event Code	200026w5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us200026w5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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