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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 9 km S of San Rafael del Pinal, Venezuela

Posted by admin on August 13, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.447S, -71.9665WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from San Rafael del Pinal in Venezuela. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 46.99 km (29 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:51:55 / 10:51 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -71.9665° West, 7.447° North, depth 46.99 km. Unique identifier: us2000a7sx. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000a7sx. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/08/17 / 2017-08-13 15:21:55 / August 13, 2017 @ 3:21 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Fría, El Zulia, Cúcuta. Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop), Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Cúcuta (c. 721 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from San Cristóbal (c. 246 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Villa del Rosario (c. 65 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Los Patios (c. 58 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Rubio (c. 51 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from San Juan de Colón (c. 38 200 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 9 km S of San Rafael del Pinal, Venezuela.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9665° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.447° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km S of San Rafael del Pinal, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-13 15:21:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-13 16:09:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 312 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 1.943 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us2000a7sx Id of event.
Event Code 2000a7sx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a7sx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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