Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near San Andres in Colombia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from San Andres in Colombia. Exact location, longitude -72.9036° West, latitude 6.7241° North, depth = 158.69 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:55:14 / 11:55 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 158.69 km (99 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us20006u4m. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006u4m. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 26/08/16 / 2016-08-26 04:55:14 / August 26, 2016 @ 4:55 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Málaga (c. 18 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Rosa de Viterbo, El Playón, Belén (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. 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: 11 km SSW of San Andres, Colombia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.9036° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.7241° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	158.69 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km SSW of San Andres, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-08-26 04:55:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-26 05:14:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	2.339	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	63	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	us20006u4m	Id of event.
Event Code	20006u4m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006u4m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-72.9036° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

6.7241° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

158.69 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

11km SSW of San Andres, Colombia

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2016-08-26 04:55:14

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-08-26 05:14:40

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-300

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

2.2

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

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

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

2.339

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.06 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us20006u4m

Id of event.

Event Code

20006u4m

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us20006u4m,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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