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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Buga in Colombia

Posted by admin on September 6, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 3.9603S, -76.3245WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Buga in Colombia on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us20003guc. Event ids that are associated: us20003guc. Exact location of earthquake, -76.3245° West, 3.9603° North, depth 141.04 km. The temblor was detected at 18:14:54 / 6:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/09/15 / 2015-09-05 23:14:54 / September 5, 2015 @ 11:14 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 141.04 km (88 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 62 km (39 miles) from Cali (c. 2 392 900 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Armenia (c. 315 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Palmira (c. 248 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Buenaventura (c. 240 400 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Tuluá (c. 165 500 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Buga (c. 118 000 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Yumbo (c. 71 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chaparral, Quimbaya, Armenia (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 7 km NNW of Buga, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.3245° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.9603° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 141.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km NNW of Buga, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-05 23:14:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-06 00:02:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 326 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 1.444 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us20003guc Id of event.
Event Code 20003guc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003guc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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