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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 13 km E of Uribia, Colombia


Earthquake location 11.7164S, -72.1457WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Uribia in Colombia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 49.71 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009lmm. Id of event: us20009lmm. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/06/17 / 2017-06-09 21:17:40 / June 9, 2017 @ 9:17 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.1457 West, latitude 11.7164 North, depth = 49.71 km. The temblor was reported at 16:17:40 / 4:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ríohacha, Albania, Maicao (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Event epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Maicao (c. 130 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Ríohacha (c. 92 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Manaure (c. 9 700 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Uribia (c. 7 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Albania (c. 6 400 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km E of Uribia, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1457° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.7164° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km E of Uribia, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-09 21:17:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-09 22:34:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 370 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 2.23 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 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 us20009lmm Id of event.
Event Code 20009lmm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009lmm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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