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Moderate earthquake 5.6 mag, 41 km ESE of Mountain, Colombia


Earthquake location 13.1735S, -81.0334WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Mountain in Colombia. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hwg8. Id of event: us1000hwg8. A tsunami warning has been issued near Mountain in Colombia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/11/18 / 2018-11-25 20:56:36 / November 25, 2018 @ 8:56 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 15:56:36 / 3:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -81.0334° West, 13.1735° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 98 km (61 miles) from San Andrés (c. 58 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Andrés (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 41 km ESE of Mountain, Colombia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -81.0334° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.1735° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km ESE 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 20:56:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-25 21:13:58 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 4.17 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 1 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 482 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 3.333 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hwg8 Id of event.
Event Code 1000hwg8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hwg8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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