Quakedle
Puzzle #3 was 20 km ESE of Yumare, Venezuela.
Quakedle is an educational game. Event details and tsunami indicators must not be used for emergency decisions; follow official local authorities and current USGS notices.
USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M7.5 — major class
- Magnitude type
- mww — W-phase moment magnitude
- Depth
- 10.0 km — shallow
- Region
- The Caribbean
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator not set
- Felt reports
- 753 DYFI reports
- PAGER alert
- red PAGER alert
- Tectonic plates
- Caribbean Plate · North American Plate · South American Plate
- Tectonic context
- The Caribbean Plate is bounded by subduction and strike-slip systems; local fault geometry varies around the island arcs and northern South America.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M7.5. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Major (M7.0–7.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 10.0 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Shallow (less than 70 km)
- USGS locates the event at “20 km ESE of Yumare, Venezuela”. Which broad authored region matches?
- The Caribbean
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- No — USGS did not set the event’s tsunami indicator; that is not a forecast.
- Is this the largest earthquake in the supplied USGS week comparison?
- Yes — it is the largest or tied for largest in the supplied week.