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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 36 km WNW of La Belleza, Colombia

Posted by admin on September 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.0351S, -74.2455WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 36 kilometers (22 miles) from La Belleza in Colombia on Saturday. Event id: us20003lzl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003lzl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/09/15 / 2015-09-19 20:45:44 / September 19, 2015 @ 8:45 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.73 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -74.2455° West, latitude 6.0351° North, depth = 9.73 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:45:44 / 3:45 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Roque, Ubaté, La Mesa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from La Dorada (c. 82 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Chiquinquirá (c. 45 300 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Puerto Berrío (c. 34 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Puerto Boyacá (c. 27 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from La Mesa (c. 26 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Ubaté (c. 20 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barbosa (c. 20 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 36 km WNW of La Belleza, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.2455° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.0351° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km WNW of La Belleza, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-19 20:45:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-19 21:09:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.164 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us20003lzl Id of event.
Event Code 20003lzl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003lzl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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