Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Aratoca in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Aratoca in Colombia on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/05/17 / 2017-05-24 02:15:59 / May 24, 2017 @ 2:15 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 150.12 km (93 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:15:59 / 9:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -73.0859 West, latitude 6.831 North, depth = 150.12 km. Event id: us10008wmz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008wmz.

Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yondó, Barrancabermeja, Toledo (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 16 km NNW of Aratoca, Colombia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.0859° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.831° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	150.12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km NNW of Aratoca, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-24 02:15:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-31 21:43:52	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	0.931	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	us10008wmz	Id of event.
Event Code	10008wmz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008wmz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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