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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near San Diego in Venezuela

Posted by admin on December 27, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.2681S, -67.9506WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 0 kilometers (0 miles) from San Diego in Venezuela on Thursday. Unique identifier: us2000iy16. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000iy16. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.9506 West, latitude 10.2681 North, depth = 10 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:54:20 / 4:54 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 27/12/18 / 2018-12-27 09:24:20 / December 27, 2018 @ 9:24 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Maracay (c. 1 754 300 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Valencia (c. 1 385 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Turmero (c. 344 700 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Puerto Cabello (c. 174 000 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Guacara (c. 151 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from El Limón (c. 148 200 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Los Teques (c. 140 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chivacoa, Los Teques, San Carlos (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 0 km NNE of San Diego, Venezuela.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9506° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.2681° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km NNE 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 2018-12-27 09:24:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-27 09:49:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -270 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 385 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 1.319 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us2000iy16 Id of event.
Event Code 2000iy16 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iy16, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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