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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 4 km NW of San Diego, Venezuela

Posted by admin on April 27, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.2885S, -67.9818WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from San Diego in Venezuela. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:14:49 / 4:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.9818 West, latitude 10.2885 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us1000dt7f. Event ids that are associated: us1000dt7f. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/04/18 / 2018-04-27 08:44:49 / April 27, 2018 @ 8:44 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Maracay (c. 1 754 300 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Valencia (c. 1 385 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Turmero (c. 344 700 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Puerto Cabello (c. 174 000 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Guacara (c. 151 800 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from El Limón (c. 148 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Palo Negro (c. 128 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Carlos, Las Tejerías, San Felipe.

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km NW of San Diego, Venezuela. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9818° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.2885° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km NW of San Diego, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-27 08:44:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-27 09:13:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 32 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.2 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 353 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 2.109 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us1000dt7f Id of event.
Event Code 1000dt7f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dt7f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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