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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Curbati in Venezuela

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Curbati in Venezuela on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -70.6286 West, latitude 8.6099 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us10006ekp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006ekp. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:07:07 / 6:07 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/08/16 / 2016-08-17 22:37:07 / August 17, 2016 @ 10:37 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Event epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Barinas (c. 353 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Mérida (c. 300 000 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Alto Barinas (c. 284 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Mucumpiz (c. 215 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Ejido (c. 106 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Valera (c. 93 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Trujillo (c. 38 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Trujillo, Valera, Ejido.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km NNW of Curbati, Venezuela. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.6286° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.6099° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km NNW of Curbati, Venezuela	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-17 22:37:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-17 22:57:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-270	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	355	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	0.272	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	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	us10006ekp	Id of event.
Event Code	10006ekp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006ekp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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