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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Uramita in Colombia

Posted by admin on August 7, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.8868S, -76.2255WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Uramita in Colombia on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 31.66 km (20 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/08/16 / 2016-08-07 08:20:13 / August 7, 2016 @ 8:20 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006bxf. Id of event: us10006bxf. The temblor was reported at 03:20:13 / 3:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -76.2255 West, latitude 6.8868 North, depth = 31.66 km.

The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Bello (c. 392 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Yarumal (c. 22 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Urrao (c. 18 800 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Antioquia (c. 11 800 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Dabeiba (c. 11 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ituango (c. 10 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Santa Rosa de Osos (c. 10 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bello, Betulia, Yarumal. Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 5 km WSW of Uramita, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.2255° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.8868° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km WSW of Uramita, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-07 08:20:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-07 09:20:27 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 326 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 2.775 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us10006bxf Id of event.
Event Code 10006bxf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006bxf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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