A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Tumaco in Colombia. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:32:20 / 8:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -79.1238 West, latitude 1.8887 North, depth = 35.03 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35.03 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 03/01/18 / 2018-01-03 01:32:20 / January 3, 2018 @ 1:32 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000bz7e. Event ids that are associated: us1000bz7e.
The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Tumaco (c. 86 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas (c. 20 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Valdez (c. 11 400 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Francisco Pizarro (c. 6 100 pop). Close country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop), Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Lorenzo de Esmeraldas, Valdez, Francisco Pizarro.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 have been detected nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 35 km WNW of Tumaco, Colombia.
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