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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Lagunillas in Venezuela


Earthquake location 8.4665S, -71.3919WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Lagunillas in Venezuela on Saturday. Global time and date of event 07/11/15 / 2015-11-07 07:37:44 / November 7, 2015 @ 7:37 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.58 km (2 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -71.3919° West, latitude 8.4665° North, depth = 3.58 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000439b. Id of event: us1000439b. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:07:44 / 3:07 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Carlos del Zulia, El Vigía, Mérida. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Mérida (c. 300 000 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Mucumpiz (c. 215 300 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Ejido (c. 106 900 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from El Vigía (c. 59 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Carlos del Zulia (c. 56 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km S of Lagunillas, Venezuela.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.3919° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.4665° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km S 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 07:37:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-04 08:27:36 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 284 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 0.856 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000439b Id of event.
Event Code 1000439b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000439b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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