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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Duaca in Venezuela

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Duaca in Venezuela. The temblor was picked up at 11:19:24 / 11:19 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/08/19 / 2019-08-24 15:49:24 / August 24, 2019 @ 3:49 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -69.2264° West, latitude 10.4216° North, depth = 20.71 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.71 km (13 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us700057v3. Event ids that are associated: us700057v3.

Nearby country/countries, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nirgua, Quíbor, San Felipe (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Barquisimeto (c. 809 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Yaritagua (c. 89 700 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from San Felipe (c. 76 800 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Chivacoa (c. 45 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Quíbor (c. 41 500 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Los Rastrojos (c. 34 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 16 km NNW of Duaca, Venezuela.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.2264° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.4216° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.71 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km NNW of Duaca, Venezuela	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-08-24 15:49:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-25 04:58:40	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	246	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	1.876	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	us700057v3	Id of event.
Event Code	700057v3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us700057v3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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