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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 8 km ESE of Irapa, Venezuela


Earthquake location 10.5356S, -62.5105WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Irapa in Venezuela. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70009dbc. Ids that are associated to the event: us70009dbc. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/05/20 / 2020-05-09 13:30:06 / May 9, 2020 @ 1:30 pm. Exact location, longitude -62.5105° West, latitude 10.5356° North, depth = 87.24 km. The temblor was reported at 09:00:06 / 9:00 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 87.24 km (54 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carúpano, Güiria. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Carúpano (c. 112 100 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Güiria (c. 40 000 pop).

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 twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km ESE of Irapa, Venezuela.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -62.5105° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.5356° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ESE of Irapa, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-09 13:30:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-09 13:51:13 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 312 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 1.795 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 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 us70009dbc Id of event.
Event Code 70009dbc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009dbc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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