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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Mosquera in Colombia

Posted by admin on December 28, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 2.6919S, -78.886WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Mosquera in Colombia. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000bj7l. Unique identifier: us1000bj7l. The temblor was picked up at 01:26:49 / 1:26 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/11/17 / 2017-11-30 06:26:49 / November 30, 2017 @ 6:26 am. Exact location of event, longitude -78.886 West, latitude 2.6919 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Charco, Francisco Pizarro. Event epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from El Charco (c. 28 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Francisco Pizarro (c. 6 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 52 km WNW of Mosquera, Colombia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -78.886° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.6919° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km WNW of Mosquera, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-30 06:26:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-28 14:04:47 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 298 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 0.865 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us1000bj7l Id of event.
Event Code 1000bj7l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bj7l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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