Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Capitanejo in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Capitanejo in Colombia on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 172.7 km (107 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/10/18 / 2018-10-08 14:45:44 / October 8, 2018 @ 2:45 pm. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:45:44 / 9:45 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000hb5v. Event ids that are associated: us1000hb5v. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 172.7 km, -72.7411° West, 6.5258° North.

Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Toledo, Duitama, Lebrija (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Duitama (c. 92 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 5 km W of Capitanejo, Colombia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.7411° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.5258° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	172.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km W of Capitanejo, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-08 14:45:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-16 13:56:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		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	259	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	2.293	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	115	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	us1000hb5v	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hb5v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hb5v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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