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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Guamal in Colombia


Earthquake location 3.9283S, -73.8963WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Guamal in Colombia on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/05/19 / 2019-05-12 07:28:08 / May 12, 2019 @ 7:28 am. Exact location of earthquake, -73.8963° West, 3.9283° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 02:28:08 / 2:28 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70003jzm. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003jzm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Bogotá (c. 7 674 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Villavicencio (c. 321 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Soacha (c. 313 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Fusagasuga (c. 88 800 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Funza (c. 54 400 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Acacías (c. 40 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Granada (c. 32 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carmen de Apicalá, Funza, Mosquera (min 5000 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 15 km WNW of Guamal, Colombia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.8963° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.9283° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km WNW of Guamal, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-12 07:28:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-12 07:41:42 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 312 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 1.004 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us70003jzm Id of event.
Event Code 70003jzm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003jzm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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