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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Acandi in Colombia

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Acandi in Colombia on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 16:31:16 / 4:31 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000hirk. Event ids that are associated: us1000hirk. Exact location of earthquake, -77.2233° West, 8.6818° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/10/18 / 2018-10-29 21:31:16 / October 29, 2018 @ 9:31 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop), Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Pedro de Urabá, Arboletes, Turbo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Turbo (c. 50 500 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from San Pedro de Urabá (c. 11 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Necoclí (c. 10 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Juan de Urabá (c. 10 800 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Unión Chocó (c. 9 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Arboletes (c. 8 400 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate 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 was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 20 km NNE of Acandi, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-77.2233° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.6818° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20km NNE of Acandi, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-29 21:31:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-29 21:53:12	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	385	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	2.627	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	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	us1000hirk	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hirk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hirk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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