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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Plato in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Plato in Colombia. Event id: us2000atgp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000atgp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 23/09/17 / 2017-09-23 05:17:45 / September 23, 2017 @ 5:17 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 52.5 km (33 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:17:45 / 12:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -74.7175 West, latitude 9.7486 North, depth = 52.5 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ariguaní, Sampués, Pinillos (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 89 km (56 miles) from Sincelejo (c. 261 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Magangué (c. 100 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Arjona (c. 50 400 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Plato (c. 48 600 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from El Carmen de Bolívar (c. 48 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Corozal (c. 39 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Pivijay (c. 33 500 pop). Close country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km ESE of Plato, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.7175° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.7486° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	52.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km ESE of Plato, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-09-23 05:17:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-23 05:32:55	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	312	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	4.12	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	60	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	us2000atgp	Id of event.
Event Code	2000atgp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000atgp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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