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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 100 km NNW of Riohacha, Colombia


Earthquake location 12.3341S, -73.3571WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 100 km NNW of Riohacha, Colombia (62 miles) on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/02/16 / 2016-02-14 16:37:14 / February 14, 2016 @ 4:37 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.03 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -73.3571 West, latitude 12.3341 North, depth = 28.03 km. Unique identifier: us10004qjt. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004qjt. The temblor was picked up at 11:37:14 / 11:37 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 100 km NNW of Riohacha, Colombia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.3571° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.3341° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100km NNW of Riohacha, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-14 16:37:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-08 20:25:24 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 1.478 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us10004qjt Id of event.
Event Code 10004qjt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004qjt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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