Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 13 km SW of Guiria, Venezuela

A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Guiria in Venezuela on Monday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005u58. Id of event: us70005u58. Exact location of event, longitude -62.3754 West, latitude 10.4741 North, depth = 103.42 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 103.42 km (64 miles). Global time and date of event 14/10/19 / 2019-10-14 19:28:19 / October 14, 2019 @ 7:28 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:58:19 / 2:58 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Fernando, Couva, Carúpano (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Laventille (c. 157 300 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Carúpano (c. 112 100 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from San Fernando (c. 55 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Port-of-Spain (c. 49 000 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Güiria (c. 40 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Point Fortin (c. 19 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Petit Valley (c. 8 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Trinidad and Tobago (c. 1 229 000 pop), Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-62.3754° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.4741° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	103.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km SW of Guiria, Venezuela	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-10-14 19:28:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-14 19:43:36	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	369	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	1.793	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	137	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	us70005u58	Id of event.
Event Code	70005u58	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005u58,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.9 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-62.3754° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

10.4741° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

103.42 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

13km SW of Guiria, Venezuela

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2019-10-14 19:28:19

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-10-14 19:43:36

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

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

369

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.793

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.73 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

137

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us70005u58

Id of event.

Event Code

70005u58

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us70005u58,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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