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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near El Carmen in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from El Carmen in Colombia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/09/15 / 2015-09-23 18:47:23 / September 23, 2015 @ 6:47 pm. Event id: us20003nfc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003nfc. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 140.68 km (87 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 140.68 km, -73.4818° West, 6.5394° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:47:23 / 1:47 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Duitama (c. 92 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sabana de Torres, Duitama, Paipa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 17 km S of El Carmen, Colombia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.4818° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.5394° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	140.68 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km S of El Carmen, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-23 18:47:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-23 19:46:42	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	2.7	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	0.754	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96	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	us20003nfc	Id of event.
Event Code	20003nfc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003nfc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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