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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Cimitarra in Colombia

Posted by admin on August 23, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.2333S, -74.0382WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Cimitarra in Colombia on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.73 km (30 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -74.0382 West, latitude 6.2333 North, depth = 47.73 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/08/18 / 2018-08-22 13:06:25 / August 22, 2018 @ 1:06 pm. The temblor was detected at 08:06:25 / 8:06 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000gftc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gftc.

Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Chiquinquirá (c. 45 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Puerto Berrío (c. 34 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Puerto Boyacá (c. 27 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Barbosa (c. 20 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Socorro (c. 17 800 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Cimitarra (c. 11 300 pop). Close country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barrancabermeja, Socorro, Yondó.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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.

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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. 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: 13 km SW of Cimitarra, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.0382° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.2333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SW of Cimitarra, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-22 13:06:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-23 00:49:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 312 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 1.008 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us1000gftc Id of event.
Event Code 1000gftc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gftc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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