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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Casigua El Cubo in Venezuela

Posted by admin on April 19, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.8577S, -72.4176WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Casigua El Cubo in Venezuela. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 124.49 km (77 miles). The temblor was reported at 08:32:43 / 8:32 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/04/20 / 2020-04-12 13:02:43 / April 12, 2020 @ 1:02 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us70008ym1. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008ym1. Exact location of event, longitude -72.4176 West, latitude 8.8577 North, depth = 124.49 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from El Vigía (c. 59 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from San Carlos del Zulia (c. 56 600 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from San Juan de Colón (c. 38 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from La Fría (c. 27 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Puerto Santander (c. 16 300 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Tibú (c. 13 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Juan de Colón, El Vigía, La Fría. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop), Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 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 NE of Casigua El Cubo, Venezuela.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.4176° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.8577° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 124.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km NE of Casigua El Cubo, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-12 13:02:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-19 13:40:03 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 298 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 4.411 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us70008ym1 Id of event.
Event Code 70008ym1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008ym1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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