M 4.9 in Venezuela on 28 Mar 2024 23:23 UTC

Hazard models

Rapid Impact
Shakemap
Tsunami

Event summary

This earthquake is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 8.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.6379 , -69.9726
Event Date: 28 Mar 2024 23:23 UTC
28 Mar 2024 19:23 Local
Exposed Population:
10 thousand in MMI V
Source: NEIC us7000m8nn
Inserted at: 29 Mar 2024 00:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 4.3 (Venezuela)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000m8nn Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

The green area correspond to areas affected by strong shaking (MMI VI or higher) according to the simulation.


Episode Timeline

IDAlertScoreDateMag, DepthMMI*Population**Tsunami risk***Delay (hh:mm)Source
1561667 0 28 Mar 2024 23:23 4.9M, 8.6km 5.41 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 00:37 NEIC
The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.
The episode that has the last updated information.
* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Rapid Impact

The results presented below are calculated with the ShakeMap open source software (USGS) using only earthquake hypocenter information to provide a rapid estimation of the ground motion and shaking intensity without taking into account any instrumental observations or earthquake source scaling laws.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in Venezuela ,of Lara (population 1,302,490) . The alertlevel for this event is GREEN

Intensity Population
12000 people

Affected Provinces

Intensity Region Province Country Population
Lara Venezuela 5200 people
Lara Venezuela 1600 people
Trujillo Venezuela no people
Portuguesa Venezuela <1000 people

Affected populated places. Areas of interest

Intensity Name Region Province Country City class Population Distance
Humocaro Bajo Lara Venezuela Village - 5 km

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Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

Dams

Intensity Reservoir Dam Name River Year Distance
Dos Cerritos Tocuyo 1973 21 km

More information

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