A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported northern Colombia kilometers (0 miles) from northern Colombia on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008ujp. Unique identifier: us10008ujp. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/05/17 / 2017-05-24 00:55:46 / May 24, 2017 @ 12:55 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 146.17 km (91 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 00:55:46 / 12:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -73.0616 West, latitude 6.9136 North, depth = 146.17 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chinácota, Barrancabermeja, Toledo. Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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