Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near San Andres in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from San Andres in Colombia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 153.23 km (95 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 24/12/16 / 2016-12-24 11:46:41 / December 24, 2016 @ 11:46 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:46:41 / 6:46 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007ses. Unique identifier: us10007ses. Exact location of earthquake, -72.9695° West, 6.8272° North, depth 153.23 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 20 km (12 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). Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Belén, Sabana de Torres, El Playón (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.9695° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.8272° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	153.23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km W 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	2016-12-24 11:46:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-14 10:32:38	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	298	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	0.934	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	91	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	us10007ses	Id of event.
Event Code	10007ses	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007ses,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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