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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 10 km NNE of Aratoca, Colombia


Earthquake location 6.7852S, -72.9828WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Aratoca in Colombia on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -72.9828 West, latitude 6.7852 North, depth = 157 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000je34. Unique identifier: us2000je34. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 157 km (98 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:00:49 / 10:00 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/01/19 / 2019-01-22 15:00:49 / January 22, 2019 @ 3:00 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Belén, Sabana de Torres, Toledo.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km NNE of Aratoca, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.9828° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.7852° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 157 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NNE of Aratoca, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-22 15:00:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-06 19:55:05 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 298 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 0.891 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us2000je34 Id of event.
Event Code 2000je34 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000je34, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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