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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Mutata in Colombia


Earthquake location 7.3397S, -76.163WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Mutata in Colombia. The temblor was detected at 01:46:59 / 1:46 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/09/16 / 2016-09-14 06:46:59 / September 14, 2016 @ 6:46 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10006pfi. Event ids that are associated: us10006pfi. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -76.163° West, latitude 7.3397° North, depth = 10 km.

Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Apartadó (c. 86 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Chigorodó (c. 48 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Tierralta (c. 26 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Yarumal (c. 22 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Carepa (c. 20 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Antioquia (c. 11 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Dabeiba (c. 11 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Valencia, Moñitos, Antioquia (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 31 km ENE of Mutata, Colombia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.163° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.3397° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km ENE of Mutata, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-14 06:46:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-14 07:02:34 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 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 369 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 3.081 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us10006pfi Id of event.
Event Code 10006pfi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006pfi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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