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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Cariaco in Venezuela


Earthquake location 10.4464S, -63.6613WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Cariaco in Venezuela. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/11/15 / 2015-11-30 11:50:32 / November 30, 2015 @ 11:50 am. The temblor was picked up at 07:20:32 / 7:20 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000425i. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000425i. Exact location of event, longitude -63.6613 West, latitude 10.4464 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maturín, Juan Griego, La Asunción (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Maturín (c. 411 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Cumaná (c. 257 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Carúpano (c. 112 100 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Porlamar (c. 87 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from La Asunción (c. 35 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Juan Griego (c. 28 300 pop). Nearby 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 five 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. 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: 12 km WSW of Cariaco, Venezuela.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.6613° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.4464° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km WSW of Cariaco, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-30 11:50:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-30 12:14:03 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 326 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 2.585 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us1000425i Id of event.
Event Code 1000425i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000425i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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