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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Mene Grande in Venezuela

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Mene Grande in Venezuela. Exact location of event, longitude -70.7681 West, latitude 9.9158 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us6000nfng. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nfng. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 14:11:05 / 2:11 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/07/24 / 2024-07-25 14:11:05 / July 25, 2024 @ 2:11 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Cabimas (c. 200 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Carora (c. 93 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Valera (c. 93 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Lagunillas (c. 44 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Trujillo (c. 38 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cabimas, Carora, Trujillo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 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. 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: 18 km ENE of Mene Grande, Venezuela.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.7681° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.9158° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km ENE of Mene Grande, Venezuela	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-25 14:11:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-25 14:31:12	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	385	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	50	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.034	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	us6000nfng	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nfng	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nfng,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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