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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Gueiria in Venezuela

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Earthquake location 10.8899S, -62.3691WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Gueiria in Venezuela on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/05/18 / 2018-05-24 18:53:18 / May 24, 2018 @ 6:53 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000ebkm. Unique identifier: us1000ebkm. Exact location, longitude -62.3691° West, latitude 10.8899° North, depth = 75.46 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 75.46 km (47 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 14:23:18 / 2:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Güiria (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Güiria (c. 40 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 35 km NNW of Gueiria, Venezuela.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -62.3691° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.8899° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km NNW of Gueiria, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-24 18:53:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-24 21:40:39 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 3.1 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 259 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 1.419 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 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 us1000ebkm Id of event.
Event Code 1000ebkm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ebkm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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