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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 6 km WSW of Motatan, Venezuela


Earthquake location 9.3651S, -70.6481WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Motatan in Venezuela. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:30:06 / 10:30 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/11/18 / 2018-11-28 15:00:06 / November 28, 2018 @ 3:00 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -70.6481 West, latitude 9.3651 North, depth = 8.2 km. Unique identifier: us1000hxfy. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hxfy. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.2 km (5 miles). 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). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Alto Barinas, Barinas, Barinitas. Event epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Barinas (c. 353 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Alto Barinas (c. 284 300 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Valera (c. 93 800 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Trujillo (c. 38 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Barinitas (c. 34 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km WSW of Motatan, Venezuela. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.6481° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.3651° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km WSW of Motatan, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-28 15:00:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-28 22:17:47 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 326 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 0.478 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us1000hxfy Id of event.
Event Code 1000hxfy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hxfy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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