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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Riosucio in Colombia

Posted by admin on April 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.3251S, -76.8023WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Riosucio in Colombia on Friday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/04/16 / 2016-04-08 09:11:43 / April 8, 2016 @ 9:11 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26.18 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -76.8023° West, 7.3251° North, depth 26.18 km. Unique identifier: us20005gb1. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005gb1. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:11:43 / 4:11 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Frontino, Turbo, Dabeiba (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Apartadó (c. 86 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Turbo (c. 50 500 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Chigorodó (c. 48 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Carepa (c. 20 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Dabeiba (c. 11 500 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Frontino (c. 8 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Riosucio (c. 7 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 36 km ESE of Riosucio, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.8023° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.3251° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km ESE of Riosucio, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-08 09:11:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-08 10:11:18 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 312 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 1.651 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us20005gb1 Id of event.
Event Code 20005gb1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005gb1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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