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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Gueiria in Venezuela


Earthquake location 10.8602S, -62.0778WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Gueiria in Venezuela on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000365p. Id of event: us1000365p. Exact location of event, depth 107.83 km, -62.0778° West, 10.8602° North. The temblor was picked up at 09:02:00 / 9:02 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 107.83 km (67 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/08/15 / 2015-08-30 13:32:00 / August 30, 2015 @ 1:32 pm.

Close country/countries, Trinidad and Tobago (c. 1 229 000 pop), Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Fernando, Marabella, Arima (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Laventille (c. 157 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Chaguanas (c. 67 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Fernando (c. 55 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Port-of-Spain (c. 49 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Güiria (c. 40 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Arima (c. 35 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 39 km NE of Gueiria, Venezuela. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -62.0778° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.8602° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 107.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km NE of Gueiria, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-30 13:32:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-30 14:11:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 284 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 1.33 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us1000365p Id of event.
Event Code 1000365p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000365p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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