A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Mountain in Colombia. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000h3as. Unique identifier: us1000h3as. The temblor was reported at 17:04:09 / 5:04 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/09/18 / 2018-09-20 22:04:09 / September 20, 2018 @ 10:04 pm. 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 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -81.1616 West, latitude 13.0376 North, depth = 10 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Andrés. Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from San Andrés (c. 58 300 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days six 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.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 42 km SSE of Mountain, Colombia.
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