A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Valera in Venezuela. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/07/16 / 2016-07-15 06:42:05 / July 15, 2016 @ 6:42 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -70.6703° West, 9.345° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us20006ev2. Ids that are associated to the event: us20006ev2. The temblor was detected at 02:12:05 / 2:12 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 95 km (59 miles) from Barinas (c. 353 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Mérida (c. 300 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Alto Barinas (c. 284 300 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Valera (c. 93 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Trujillo (c. 38 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barinitas (c. 34 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mérida, Alto Barinas, Barinas (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 7 km WNW of Valera, Venezuela.
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