Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Araya in Venezuela

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Araya in Venezuela. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -64.5527 West, latitude 10.6476 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/07/24 / 2024-07-25 03:09:54 / July 25, 2024 @ 3:09 am. The temblor was reported at 03:09:54 / 3:09 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nivv. Id of event: us6000nivv.

Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Barcelona (c. 424 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Puerto La Cruz (c. 370 000 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Cumaná (c. 257 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Porlamar (c. 87 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from La Asunción (c. 35 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Juan Griego (c. 28 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Asunción, Porlamar, Juan Griego. Close country/countries that might be effected, Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop).

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 have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 33 km WNW of Araya, Venezuela.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.5527° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.6476° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33 km WNW of Araya, 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 03:09:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-09 02:03:08	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	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.202	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	75	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	us6000nivv	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nivv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nivv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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