A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Cimitarra in Colombia. Exact location of event, longitude -73.9347 West, latitude 6.4556 North, depth = 99.64 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000g2zl. Unique identifier: us2000g2zl. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/18 / 2018-07-06 22:02:50 / July 6, 2018 @ 10:02 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 99.64 km (62 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:02:50 / 5:02 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto Boyacá, San Gil, Zapatoca (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Puerto Berrío (c. 34 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Puerto Boyacá (c. 27 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Barbosa (c. 20 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Socorro (c. 17 800 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 15 km N of Cimitarra, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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