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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 13 km SSE of San Pedro, Colombia

Posted by admin on February 23, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.2829S, -75.0144WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from San Pedro in Colombia. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.02 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -75.0144 West, latitude 9.2829 North, depth = 16.02 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/01/18 / 2018-01-26 15:03:15 / January 26, 2018 @ 3:03 pm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:03:15 / 10:03 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000cier. Event ids that are associated: us1000cier.

Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Sincelejo (c. 261 200 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Magangué (c. 100 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Sahagún (c. 59 200 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Plato (c. 48 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from El Carmen de Bolívar (c. 48 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Lorica (c. 40 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Achí, Majagual, Chivolo (min 5000 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km SSE of San Pedro, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.0144° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.2829° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SSE of San Pedro, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-26 15:03:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-23 20:25:24 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 4.344 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us1000cier Id of event.
Event Code 1000cier An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cier, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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