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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near San Diego in Venezuela

Posted by admin on April 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.2538S, -67.9341WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from San Diego in Venezuela. Exact location of event, depth 18.14 km, -67.9341° West, 10.2538° North. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:10:49 / 4:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/04/19 / 2019-04-16 08:40:49 / April 16, 2019 @ 8:40 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us700036xr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700036xr. The epicenter was at a depth of 18.14 km (11 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Maracay (c. 1 754 300 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Valencia (c. 1 385 100 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Turmero (c. 344 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Puerto Cabello (c. 174 000 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Guacara (c. 151 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from El Limón (c. 148 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chichiriviche, Las Tejerías, San Juan de los Morros.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 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: 2 km ESE of San Diego, Venezuela.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.9341° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.2538° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ESE 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 2019-04-16 08:40:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-16 20:49:16 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 3.4 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 200 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 1.306 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us700036xr Id of event.
Event Code 700036xr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700036xr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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