A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Mountain in Colombia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -81.1868 West, latitude 13.1309 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us700059sr. Event ids that are associated: us700059sr. Global time and date of event 24/08/19 / 2019-08-24 08:35:13 / August 24, 2019 @ 8:35 am UTC/GMT. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:35:13 / 3:35 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Close country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Andrés (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from San Andrés (c. 58 300 pop).
Each 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 twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 32 km SE of Mountain, Colombia.
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