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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 32 km NNW of Restrepo, Colombia


Earthquake location 4.0988S, -76.6073WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Restrepo in Colombia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -76.6073 West, latitude 4.0988 North, depth = 102.6 km. The temblor was reported at 20:50:36 / 8:50 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 102.6 km (64 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d4he. Unique identifier: us2000d4he. Global time and date of event 19/02/18 / 2018-02-19 01:50:36 / February 19, 2018 @ 1:50 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Tebaida, Puerto Tejada, Génova (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Cali (c. 2 392 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Palmira (c. 248 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Buenaventura (c. 240 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Tuluá (c. 165 500 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Buga (c. 118 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Yumbo (c. 71 400 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Puerto Tejada (c. 53 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 32 km NNW of Restrepo, Colombia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.6073° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.0988° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km NNW of Restrepo, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-19 01:50:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-19 02:43:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 18 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 362 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 2.396 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us2000d4he Id of event.
Event Code 2000d4he An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d4he, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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