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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Lejanias in Colombia

Posted by admin on December 27, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 3.4555S, -73.9805WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Lejanias in Colombia on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us70006rer. Event ids that are associated: us70006rer. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/12/19 / 2019-12-27 03:20:39 / December 27, 2019 @ 3:20 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -73.9805° West, latitude 3.4555° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:20:39 / 10:20 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Villavicencio, Puerto Lleras, Acacías (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Villavicencio (c. 321 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Acacías (c. 40 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Granada (c. 32 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from San Martín (c. 16 300 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Lejanías (c. 5 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Puerto Lleras (c. 5 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Guamal (c. 5 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km SSE of Lejanias, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.9805° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.4555° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSE of Lejanias, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-27 03:20:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-27 03:40:19 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 326 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 1.421 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us70006rer Id of event.
Event Code 70006rer An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006rer, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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