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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 5 km NNE of Aratoca, Colombia


Earthquake location 6.7375S, -72.9952WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Aratoca in Colombia. Unique identifier: us100041x9. Ids that are associated to the event: us100041x9. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:45:01 / 12:45 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -72.9952° West, 6.7375° North, depth 164.43 km. Global time and date of event 28/11/15 / 2015-11-28 17:45:01 / November 28, 2015 @ 5:45 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 164.43 km (102 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Duitama, Barrancabermeja, Santa Rosa de Viterbo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 45 km (28 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Duitama (c. 92 000 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop). Close country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km NNE of Aratoca, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.9952° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.7375° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 164.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NNE of Aratoca, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-28 17:45:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-28 18:05:56 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 3.4 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 370 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 2.296 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us100041x9 Id of event.
Event Code 100041x9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041x9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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