A 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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