Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Dabeiba in Colombia

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Dabeiba in Colombia on Monday. Event id: us70003hlq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003hlq. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:56:32 / 1:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -76.2643 West, latitude 6.991 North, depth = 20.21 km. Global time and date of event 06/05/19 / 2019-05-06 18:56:32 / May 6, 2019 @ 6:56 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.21 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Chigorodó (c. 48 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Yarumal (c. 22 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Carepa (c. 20 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Urrao (c. 18 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Antioquia (c. 11 800 pop), 1 km (1 miles) from Dabeiba (c. 11 500 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Ituango (c. 10 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carepa, Yarumal, Chigorodó. Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-76.2643° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.991° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km SSE of Dabeiba, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-05-06 18:56:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-05-22 20:07:35	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	2.877	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.98 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	88	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	us70003hlq	Id of event.
Event Code	70003hlq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70003hlq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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