A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Guaca in Colombia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 155.6 km (97 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/08/16 / 2016-08-13 09:29:44 / August 13, 2016 @ 9:29 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 04:29:44 / 4:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -72.9925° West, latitude 6.8375° North, depth = 155.6 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006djk. Id of event: us10006djk.
Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sabana de Torres, Toledo, El Playón (min 5000 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 two and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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: 15 km WSW of Guaca, Colombia.
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