Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Güiria in Venezuela

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Güiria in Venezuela on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -62.3966 West, latitude 10.8524 North, depth = 96.933 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 96.933 km (60 miles). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:30:23 / 3:30 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/12/24 / 2024-12-06 03:30:23 / December 6, 2024 @ 3:30 am. Id of earthquake: us7000nwfw. Event ids that are associated: us7000nwfw.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Trinidad and Tobago (c. 1 229 000 pop), Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop). The epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Carúpano (c. 112 100 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Port-of-Spain (c. 49 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Güiria (c. 40 000 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Petit Valley (c. 8 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-of-Spain, Carúpano, Petit Valley (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 32 km NNW of Güiria, Venezuela.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-62.3966° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.8524° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	96.933 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32 km NNW of Güiria, Venezuela	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-06 03:30:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-06 04:42:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	340	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	64	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.591	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	84	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	us7000nwfw	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nwfw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nwfw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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