Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Caceres in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Caceres in Colombia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 29/11/17 / 2017-11-29 20:08:51 / November 29, 2017 @ 8:08 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 15:08:51 / 3:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -75.301 West, latitude 7.5127 North, depth = 77.05 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 77.05 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us2000c1jb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000c1jb.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pueblo Nuevo, Nechí, Segovia. The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Montelíbano (c. 85 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Caucasia (c. 58 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from El Bagre (c. 40 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Segovia (c. 39 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Carlos (c. 22 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Yarumal (c. 22 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 9 km SE of Caceres, Colombia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-75.301° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.5127° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	77.05 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km SE of Caceres, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-29 20:08:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-21 17:55:16	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	1.293	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.88 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	99	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	us2000c1jb	Id of event.
Event Code	2000c1jb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000c1jb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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