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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Irapa in Venezuela


Earthquake location 10.6522S, -62.5624WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Irapa in Venezuela. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 100.64 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 08/07/18 / 2018-07-08 17:44:01 / July 8, 2018 @ 5:44 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 13:14:01 / 1:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -62.5624 West, latitude 10.6522 North, depth = 100.64 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000g42s. Unique identifier: us2000g42s.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Carúpano (c. 112 100 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Güiria (c. 40 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carúpano, Güiria (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km NNE of Irapa, Venezuela. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -62.5624° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.6522° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km NNE of Irapa, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-08 17:44:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-29 13:43:06 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 1.719 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us2000g42s Id of event.
Event Code 2000g42s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g42s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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