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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Mountain in Colombia


Earthquake location 13.0807S, -81.0383WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Mountain in Colombia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -81.0383° West, latitude 13.0807° North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hwlf. Id of event: us1000hwlf. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/11/18 / 2018-11-26 09:13:13 / November 26, 2018 @ 9:13 am. The temblor was reported at 04:13:13 / 4:13 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Andrés (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (56 miles) from San Andrés (c. 58 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days twenty 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 47 km SE of Mountain, Colombia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -81.0383° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0807° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km SE 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 09:13:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-26 12:55:08 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 326 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 3.303 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us1000hwlf Id of event.
Event Code 1000hwlf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hwlf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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