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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 15 km N of Aratoca, Colombia


Earthquake location 6.8343S, -73.0335WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Aratoca in Colombia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 144.15 km (90 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:27:17 / 1:27 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/03/16 / 2016-03-09 06:27:17 / March 9, 2016 @ 6:27 am. Unique identifier: us10004w8b. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004w8b. Exact location, longitude -73.0335° West, latitude 6.8343° North, depth = 144.15 km.

Epicenter of the event was 34 km (21 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yondó, Chinácota, Belén (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 15 km N of Aratoca, Colombia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.0335° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.8343° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 144.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km N 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 2016-03-09 06:27:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-09 06:43:25 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 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 385 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 1.425 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us10004w8b Id of event.
Event Code 10004w8b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004w8b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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