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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Puerto Cumarebo in Venezuela

Posted by admin on June 10, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.4804S, -69.3907WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Puerto Cumarebo in Venezuela. Exact location of event, longitude -69.3907 West, latitude 11.4804 North, depth = 16.83 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ekhv. Id of event: us1000ekhv. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.83 km (10 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 03/06/18 / 2018-06-03 16:22:23 / June 3, 2018 @ 4:22 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 11:52:23 / 11:52 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Coro (c. 195 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Punto Fijo (c. 131 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Willemstad (c. 125 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Punta Cardón (c. 58 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Sint Michiel Liber (c. 5 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cardón, Punto Fijo, Sint Michiel Liber (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Curacao (c. 142 000 pop), Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km W of Puerto Cumarebo, Venezuela.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.3907° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.4804° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km W of Puerto Cumarebo, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-03 16:22:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-10 14:41:57 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 298 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 0.814 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us1000ekhv Id of event.
Event Code 1000ekhv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ekhv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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