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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 3 km N of Lagunillas, Venezuela


Earthquake location 8.5398S, -71.3929WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Lagunillas in Venezuela. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/11/15 / 2015-11-14 12:20:22 / November 14, 2015 @ 12:20 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.3929 West, latitude 8.5398 North, depth = 9.07 km. The temblor was detected at 07:50:22 / 7:50 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003yc3. Unique identifier: us10003yc3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.07 km (6 miles).

The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Mérida (c. 300 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Mucumpiz (c. 215 300 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Ejido (c. 106 900 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from El Vigía (c. 59 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Carlos del Zulia (c. 56 600 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from La Fría (c. 27 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Fría, San Carlos del Zulia, Mucumpiz (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 3 km N of Lagunillas, Venezuela.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.3929° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.5398° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km N 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 2015-11-14 12:20:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-14 12:37:16 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 369 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 0.824 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us10003yc3 Id of event.
Event Code 10003yc3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003yc3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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