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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Tangua in Colombia

Posted by admin on June 12, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 1.0317S, -77.2585WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Tangua in Colombia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ep1l. Id of event: us1000ep1l. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 04:35:26 / 4:35 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -77.2585° West, 1.0317° North, depth 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/06/18 / 2018-06-12 09:35:26 / June 12, 2018 @ 9:35 am.

Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop), Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 20 km (13 miles) from Pasto (c. 382 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Tulcán (c. 86 500 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Ipiales (c. 77 700 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Puerto Asís (c. 29 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Mocoa (c. 22 000 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Túquerres (c. 20 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Gabriel (c. 15 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto Asís, San Miguel, San Gabriel.

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 16 km ESE of Tangua, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -77.2585° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.0317° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ESE of Tangua, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-12 09:35:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-12 10:28:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.9 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 371 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 0.614 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000ep1l Id of event.
Event Code 1000ep1l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ep1l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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