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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 35 km SSE of Mountain, Colombia


Earthquake location 13.0714S, -81.2366WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Mountain in Colombia. 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). The temblor was picked up at 01:36:13 / 1:36 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/11/18 / 2018-11-26 06:36:13 / November 26, 2018 @ 6:36 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -81.2366 West, latitude 13.0714 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us1000hwku. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hwku.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from San Andrés (c. 58 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Andrés.

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 35 km SSE of Mountain, Colombia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -81.2366° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0714° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km 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 2018-11-26 06:36:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-26 08:36:13 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 3.114 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 26 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 us1000hwku Id of event.
Event Code 1000hwku An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hwku, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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