A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Nuqui in Colombia. Event id: us200064h0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200064h0. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/06/16 / 2016-06-15 02:54:36 / June 15, 2016 @ 2:54 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10.92 km (7 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:54:36 / 9:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -77.5599 West, latitude 5.6926 North, depth = 10.92 km.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pizarro (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Pizarro (c. 6 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).
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. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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: 32 km W of Nuqui, Colombia.
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