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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 8 km SSW of Piedecuesta, Colombia

Posted by admin on April 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.9231S, -73.0895WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Piedecuesta in Colombia on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005g2g. Id of event: us20005g2g. Exact location of event, longitude -73.0895 West, latitude 6.9231 North, depth = 155.6 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/04/16 / 2016-04-01 14:02:44 / April 1, 2016 @ 2:02 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 155.6 km (97 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:02:44 / 9:02 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chinácota, Yondó, Barrancabermeja. The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 8 km SSW of Piedecuesta, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.0895° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.9231° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 155.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSW of Piedecuesta, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-01 14:02:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-15 08:24:11 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 284 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 1.328 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us20005g2g Id of event.
Event Code 20005g2g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005g2g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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