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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Mountain in Colombia


Earthquake location 13.0058S, -81.3165WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Mountain in Colombia on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: us1000i2sg. Event ids that are associated: us1000i2sg. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/12/18 / 2018-12-05 14:11:15 / December 5, 2018 @ 2:11 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:11:15 / 9:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -81.3165° West, latitude 13.0058° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from San Andrés (c. 58 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Andrés (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 40 km S 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 -81.3165° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.0058° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km S 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 2018-12-05 14:11:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-05 14:51:16 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 3.022 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us1000i2sg Id of event.
Event Code 1000i2sg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000i2sg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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