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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Murindo in Colombia

Posted by admin on November 17, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.2163S, -76.721WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Murindo in Colombia. Unique identifier: us1000ht4m. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000ht4m. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/11/18 / 2018-11-17 08:56:42 / November 17, 2018 @ 8:56 am. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:56:42 / 3:56 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 29.25 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -76.721 West, latitude 7.2163 North, depth = 29.25 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cañasgordas, Frontino, Apartadó (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Apartadó (c. 86 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Chigorodó (c. 48 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Carepa (c. 20 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Dabeiba (c. 11 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Frontino (c. 8 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Riosucio (c. 7 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Cañasgordas (c. 6 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 25 km N of Murindo, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.721° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.2163° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km N of Murindo, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-17 08:56:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-17 09:12:24 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 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 3.353 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us1000ht4m Id of event.
Event Code 1000ht4m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ht4m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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