A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Santa Genoveva de Docorodo in Colombia. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000885w. Unique identifier: us1000885w. The epicenter was at a depth of 40.09 km (25 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/03/17 / 2017-03-10 06:18:12 / March 10, 2017 @ 6:18 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 01:18:12 / 1:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -77.5609 West, latitude 4.383 North, depth = 40.09 km.
The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Buenaventura (c. 240 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Pizarro (c. 6 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Buenaventura, Pizarro. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 25 km WNW of Santa Genoveva de Docorodo, Colombia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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