A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Lagunillas in Venezuela. Global time and date of event 20/11/15 / 2015-11-20 18:00:06 / November 20, 2015 @ 6:00 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.16 km (16 miles). Id of earthquake: us10003zvp. Event ids that are associated: us10003zvp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -71.3386° West, 8.5314° North, depth 25.16 km. The temblor was picked up at 13:30:06 / 1:30 pm (local time epicenter).
Close 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 San Carlos del Zulia, El Vigía, Mucumpiz. Earthquake epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Mérida (c. 300 000 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Mucumpiz (c. 215 300 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ejido (c. 106 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from El Vigía (c. 59 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Carlos del Zulia (c. 56 600 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km ENE of Lagunillas, Venezuela. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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