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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag strikes near Santa Maria in Colombia


Earthquake location 2.9902S, -75.7693WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Santa Maria in Colombia. The temblor was reported at 07:32:27 / 7:32 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000j967. Event ids that are associated: us2000j967. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 26/01/19 / 2019-01-26 12:32:27 / January 26, 2019 @ 12:32 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -75.7693° West, 2.9902° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Cali (c. 2 392 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Neiva (c. 352 900 pop), 112 km (70 miles) from Popayán (c. 258 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Palmira (c. 248 000 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Yumbo (c. 71 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Puerto Tejada (c. 53 700 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Florida (c. 47 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Jamundí (c. 44 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Popayán, San Antonio, Guacarí. Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km WNW of Santa Maria, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.7693° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 2.9902° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km WNW of Santa Maria, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-26 12:32:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-26 12:49:31 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 482 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 2.341 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 80 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000j967 Id of event.
Event Code 2000j967 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j967, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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