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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Murindo in Colombia


Earthquake location 7.0137S, -76.6356WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Murindo in Colombia. Exact location of event, depth 21.02 km, -76.6356° West, 7.0137° North. Unique identifier: us20005gx4. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005gx4. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/04/16 / 2016-04-11 09:29:29 / April 11, 2016 @ 9:29 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21.02 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:29:29 / 4:29 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Antioquia, Ituango, Apartadó (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Apartadó (c. 86 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Chigorodó (c. 48 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Carepa (c. 20 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Urrao (c. 18 800 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Antioquia (c. 11 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Dabeiba (c. 11 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Ituango (c. 10 800 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five 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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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: 13 km ENE of Murindo, Colombia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.6356° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.0137° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km ENE of Murindo, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-11 09:29:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-11 10:23:55 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 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 1.826 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us20005gx4 Id of event.
Event Code 20005gx4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005gx4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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