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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 36 km ESE of Albania, Colombia

Posted by admin on May 21, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.013S, -72.291WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Albania in Colombia on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, -72.291° West, 11.013° North, depth 83.34 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 83.34 km (52 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/05/19 / 2019-05-14 08:00:08 / May 14, 2019 @ 8:00 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003kuu. Unique identifier: us70003kuu. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:30:08 / 3:30 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 83 km (51 miles) from Maracaibo (c. 2 225 000 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Maicao (c. 130 300 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Ríohacha (c. 92 400 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from La Villa del Rosario (c. 65 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Juan del Cesar (c. 26 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Fonseca (c. 23 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Villanueva (c. 18 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Urumita, Ríohacha, Villanueva (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop), Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 36 km ESE of Albania, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.291° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.013° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 83.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km ESE of Albania, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-14 08:00:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-21 07:11:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -270 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 1.903 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 47 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 us70003kuu Id of event.
Event Code 70003kuu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003kuu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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