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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Machiques in Venezuela

Posted by admin on May 18, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.6863S, -72.7936WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Machiques in Venezuela on Friday. Exact location, longitude -72.7936° West, latitude 9.6863° North, depth = 12.168 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.168 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/05/24 / 2024-05-03 12:04:36 / May 3, 2024 @ 12:04 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000mvzi. Event ids that are associated: us6000mvzi. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:04:36 / 12:04 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop), Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from La Villa del Rosario (c. 65 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Machiques (c. 63 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Agustín Codazzi (c. 51 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from La Jagua de Ibirico (c. 18 600 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Chiriguaná (c. 15 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from La Paz (c. 13 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Becerril (c. 9 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chiriguaná, La Villa del Rosario, La Paz.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 49 km SSW of Machiques, Venezuela. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.7936° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.6863° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.168 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49 km SSW of Machiques, Venezuela Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-03 12:04:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-13 14:10:23 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 141 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.034 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us6000mvzi Id of event.
Event Code 6000mvzi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mvzi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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