A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from San Andres in Colombia. Unique identifier: us2000isyg. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000isyg. Exact location, longitude -81.2444° West, latitude 12.8299° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/12/18 / 2018-12-06 18:26:54 / December 6, 2018 @ 6:26 pm. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:26:54 / 1:26 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Andrés (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from San Andrés (c. 58 300 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 56 km ENE of San Andres, Colombia.
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