A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Molagavita in Colombia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/12/18 / 2018-12-21 15:48:08 / December 21, 2018 @ 3:48 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.8824 West, latitude 6.6876 North, depth = 193.8 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 193.8 km (120 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:48:08 / 10:48 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000j20z. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j20z. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Playón, Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Toledo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Málaga (c. 18 700 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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