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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Simacota in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Simacota in Colombia. Global time and date of event 25/02/18 / 2018-02-25 00:38:06 / February 25, 2018 @ 12:38 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us2000d7jp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d7jp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 137.68 km (86 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -73.3704 West, latitude 6.4969 North, depth = 137.68 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:38:06 / 7:38 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Paipa, Duitama, Barrancabermeja. Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Duitama (c. 92 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop). 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. 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 thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 7 km NNW of Simacota, Colombia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.3704° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.4969° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	137.68 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km NNW of Simacota, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-02-25 00:38:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-25 01:24:38	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	1.894	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65	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	us2000d7jp	Id of event.
Event Code	2000d7jp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000d7jp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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