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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Riosucio in Colombia

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Riosucio in Colombia. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/10/18 / 2018-10-23 20:54:35 / October 23, 2018 @ 8:54 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 30.98 km (19 miles). The temblor was picked up at 15:54:35 / 3:54 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000hg9i. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hg9i. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -76.9949 West, latitude 7.2873 North, depth = 30.98 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Turbo, Dabeiba, Apartadó. Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Apartadó (c. 86 400 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Turbo (c. 50 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Chigorodó (c. 48 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Carepa (c. 20 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Dabeiba (c. 11 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Riosucio (c. 7 200 pop).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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: 21 km SE of Riosucio, Colombia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-76.9949° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.2873° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	30.98 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km SE of Riosucio, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-23 20:54:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-23 22:00:55	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	354	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	3.376	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	83	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	us1000hg9i	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hg9i	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hg9i,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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