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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Mountain in Colombia


Earthquake location 13.0165S, -81.1315WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Mountain in Colombia on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hwaz. Unique identifier: us1000hwaz. The temblor was reported at 00:28:35 / 12:28 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/11/18 / 2018-11-25 05:28:35 / November 25, 2018 @ 5:28 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -81.1315° West, 13.0165° North.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Andrés. The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from San Andrés (c. 58 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 46 km SSE of Mountain, Colombia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -81.1315° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0165° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km SSE of Mountain, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-25 05:28:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-25 06:38:07 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 271 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 3.199 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us1000hwaz Id of event.
Event Code 1000hwaz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hwaz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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