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Moderate earthquake: M5.6 quake has struck near Lagunillas in Venezuela

Posted by admin on November 7, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.4639S, -71.3706WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Lagunillas in Venezuela. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:28:30 / 2:28 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.49 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/11/15 / 2015-11-07 06:58:30 / November 7, 2015 @ 6:58 am. Exact location of event, depth 14.49 km, -71.3706° West, 8.4639° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003vgf. Id of event: us10003vgf.

Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Mérida (c. 300 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Mucumpiz (c. 215 300 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Ejido (c. 106 900 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from El Vigía (c. 59 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from San Carlos del Zulia (c. 56 600 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from San Juan de Colón (c. 38 200 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Barinitas (c. 34 400 pop), 101 km (62 miles) from La Fría (c. 27 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barinitas, San Juan de Colón, La Fría (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km SSE of Lagunillas, Venezuela. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.3706° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.4639° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSE of Lagunillas, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-07 06:58:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-07 07:17:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.41 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 483 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 0.839 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us10003vgf Id of event.
Event Code 10003vgf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003vgf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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