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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Irapa in Venezuela

Posted by admin on May 6, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.5125S, -62.5345WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Irapa in Venezuela. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/04/16 / 2016-04-25 03:07:46 / April 25, 2016 @ 3:07 am. The temblor was picked up at 22:37:46 / 10:37 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20005lhl. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005lhl. Exact location, longitude -62.5345° West, latitude 10.5125° North, depth = 22.52 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.52 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carúpano, Güiria (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Carúpano (c. 112 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Güiria (c. 40 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor 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: 8 km SE of Irapa, Venezuela.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -62.5345° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.5125° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SE of Irapa, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-25 03:07:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-06 00:40:10 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 188 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 1.826 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us20005lhl Id of event.
Event Code 20005lhl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005lhl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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