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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Mountain in Colombia


Earthquake location 13.0333S, -81.1699WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Mountain in Colombia on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/11/18 / 2018-11-25 05:16:15 / November 25, 2018 @ 5:16 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hwax. Unique identifier: us1000hwax. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -81.1699° West, latitude 13.0333° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:16:15 / 12:16 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Andrés. Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from San Andrés (c. 58 300 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 four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 42 km SSE of Mountain, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -81.1699° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km 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 05:16:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-25 06:02:20 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 298 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 4.059 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us1000hwax Id of event.
Event Code 1000hwax An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hwax, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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