Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Becerril in Colombia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Becerril in Colombia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000al90. Id of event: us2000al90. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 22:37:03 / 10:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -73.0946 West, latitude 9.5711 North, depth = 124.17 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 124.17 km (77 miles). Global time and date of event 13/09/17 / 2017-09-13 03:07:03 / September 13, 2017 @ 3:07 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Astrea, Manaure Balcón del Cesar, La Paz (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Machiques (c. 63 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Agustín Codazzi (c. 51 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Curumaní (c. 22 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from La Jagua de Ibirico (c. 18 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Chimichagua (c. 16 700 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Chiriguaná (c. 15 200 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from La Paz (c. 13 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop), Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.0946° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.5711° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	124.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km SE of Becerril, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-13 03:07:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-13 03:26:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-270	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	340	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	2.523	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	56	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	us2000al90	Id of event.
Event Code	2000al90	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000al90,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.7 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-73.0946° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

9.5711° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

124.17 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

25km SE of Becerril, Colombia

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2017-09-13 03:07:03

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-09-13 03:26:26

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-270

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

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

340

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

2.523

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.16 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us2000al90

Id of event.

Event Code

2000al90

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us2000al90,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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