A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Lagunillas in Venezuela. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/11/15 / 2015-11-23 20:15:41 / November 23, 2015 @ 8:15 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:45:41 / 3:45 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us100040ik. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100040ik. Exact location of event, longitude -71.3378 West, latitude 8.6008 North, depth = 10 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Mérida (c. 300 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Mucumpiz (c. 215 300 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Ejido (c. 106 900 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from El Vigía (c. 59 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Carlos del Zulia (c. 56 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Carlos del Zulia, El Vigía, Mucumpiz (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km NNE of Lagunillas, Venezuela. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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