Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Guayabetal in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Guayabetal in Colombia on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us2000gf7t. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000gf7t. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -73.7395 West, latitude 4.2362 North, depth = 55.62 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:15:58 / 3:15 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.62 km (35 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/07/18 / 2018-07-24 20:15:58 / July 24, 2018 @ 8:15 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zipaquirá, Nemocón, Guateque. Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Bogotá (c. 7 674 400 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Villavicencio (c. 321 700 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Soacha (c. 313 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Zipaquirá (c. 91 200 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Fusagasuga (c. 88 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Chía (c. 64 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 8 km ENE of Guayabetal, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.7395° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	4.2362° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	55.62 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km ENE of Guayabetal, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-07-24 20:15:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-23 16:26:54	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	284	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	0.837	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	75	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	us2000gf7t	Id of event.
Event Code	2000gf7t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000gf7t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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