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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Aratoca in Colombia

Posted by admin on May 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.7699S, -73.0043WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Aratoca in Colombia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 147.17 km (91 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -73.0043° West, 6.7699° North, depth 147.17 km. The temblor was reported at 06:17:40 / 6:17 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/05/18 / 2018-05-20 11:17:40 / May 20, 2018 @ 11:17 am. Id of earthquake: us1000e8yh. Event ids that are associated: us1000e8yh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Málaga (c. 18 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sabana de Torres, Belén, Toledo (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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 NNE of Aratoca, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.0043° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.7699° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 147.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NNE 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 2018-05-20 11:17:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-20 11:31:13 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 326 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 2.318 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us1000e8yh Id of event.
Event Code 1000e8yh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e8yh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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