Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Dagua in Colombia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Dagua in Colombia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -76.7555° West, 3.7001° North, depth 102.47 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/07/16 / 2016-07-11 00:50:38 / July 11, 2016 @ 12:50 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 19:50:38 / 7:50 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us20006fq2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006fq2. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 102.47 km (64 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bugalagrande, Andalucía, Caloto (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Cali (c. 2 392 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Palmira (c. 248 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Buenaventura (c. 240 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Tuluá (c. 165 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Buga (c. 118 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Yumbo (c. 71 400 pop). Close country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km WNW of Dagua, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-76.7555° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	3.7001° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	102.47 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km WNW of Dagua, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-11 00:50:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-26 03:29:50	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	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	285	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	2.702	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.95 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	us20006fq2	Id of event.
Event Code	20006fq2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006fq2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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