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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Giron in Colombia

Posted by admin on August 30, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.9631S, -73.157WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Giron in Colombia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/08/15 / 2015-08-30 15:13:12 / August 30, 2015 @ 3:13 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 141.25 km (88 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -73.157 West, latitude 6.9631 North, depth = 141.25 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:13:12 / 10:13 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000365x. Id of event: us1000365x.

Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 19 km (11 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chinácota, San Alberto, Puerto Wilches (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km S of Giron, Colombia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.157° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.9631° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 141.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km S of Giron, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-30 15:13:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-30 17:19:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.065 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us1000365x Id of event.
Event Code 1000365x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000365x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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