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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 113 km ENE of Guatire, Venezuela


Earthquake location 10.827S, -65.5658WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 113 km ENE of Guatire, Venezuela (70 miles) on Thursday. Global time and date of event 11/06/20 / 2020-06-11 09:39:42 / June 11, 2020 @ 9:39 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.5658 West, latitude 10.827 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:39:42 / 9:39 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000a9uk. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000a9uk. 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 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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.

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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: 113 km ENE of Guatire, Venezuela.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.5658° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.827° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 113 km ENE of Guatire, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-11 09:39:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-11 11:24:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 4.048 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us6000a9uk Id of event.
Event Code 6000a9uk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a9uk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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