Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Aratoca in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Aratoca in Colombia. The temblor was detected at 18:28:56 / 6:28 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000dvzr. Event ids that are associated: us1000dvzr. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 163.69 km (102 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -73.0624° West, 6.7576° North, depth 163.69 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/04/18 / 2018-04-23 23:28:56 / April 23, 2018 @ 11:28 pm.

The epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Toledo, Belén, Sabana de Torres. Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-one 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.

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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: 8 km NNW of Aratoca, Colombia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.0624° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.7576° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	163.69 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km NNW of Aratoca, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-04-23 23:28:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-04 05:12:05	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	259	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	2.275	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	147	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	us1000dvzr	Id of event.
Event Code	1000dvzr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000dvzr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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