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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near El Tocuyo in Venezuela


Earthquake location 9.4486S, -69.82WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from El Tocuyo in Venezuela. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:42:09 / 8:42 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000amnl. Event ids that are associated: us7000amnl. Exact location of event, longitude -69.82 West, latitude 9.4486 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/07/20 / 2020-07-13 08:42:09 / July 13, 2020 @ 8:42 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Barquisimeto (c. 809 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Acarigua (c. 143 700 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Guanare (c. 112 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Carora (c. 93 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Valera (c. 93 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Araure (c. 73 100 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from El Tocuyo (c. 53 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Los Rastrojos, Barquisimeto, Valera (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 37 km S of El Tocuyo, Venezuela.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.82° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.4486° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37 km S of El Tocuyo, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-13 08:42:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-13 09:10:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 326 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 0.98 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us7000amnl Id of event.
Event Code 7000amnl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000amnl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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