Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Castilla La Nueva in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Castilla La Nueva in Colombia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.41 km (21 miles). Unique identifier: us2000acv8. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000acv8. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/08/17 / 2017-08-24 22:22:20 / August 24, 2017 @ 10:22 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 34.41 km, -73.5145° West, 3.9163° North. The temblor was detected at 17:22:20 / 5:22 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Villavicencio (c. 321 700 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Acacías (c. 40 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Granada (c. 32 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Puerto López (c. 16 700 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from San Martín (c. 16 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Cumaral (c. 11 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fómeque, Cáqueza, Lejanías (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 four 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 20 km ENE of Castilla La Nueva, Colombia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.5145° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	3.9163° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.41 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20km ENE of Castilla La Nueva, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-08-24 22:22:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-12 04:54:23	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	246	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	1.223	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	84	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	us2000acv8	Id of event.
Event Code	2000acv8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000acv8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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