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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Aratoca in Colombia

Posted by admin on September 4, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.7252S, -72.9769WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Aratoca in Colombia. Exact location of event, longitude -72.9769 West, latitude 6.7252 North, depth = 157.97 km. 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 157.97 km (98 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000afmq. Event ids that are associated: us2000afmq. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/09/17 / 2017-09-04 20:28:22 / September 4, 2017 @ 8:28 pm. The temblor was picked up at 15:28:22 / 3:28 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Duitama, Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Sabana de Torres (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Duitama (c. 92 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 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 three and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 5 km NE of Aratoca, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.9769° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.7252° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 157.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NE 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 2017-09-04 20:28:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-04 20:49:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 0.833 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us2000afmq Id of event.
Event Code 2000afmq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000afmq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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