Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Zarzal in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Zarzal in Colombia. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:47:51 / 8:47 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 05/01/20 / 2020-01-05 13:47:51 / January 5, 2020 @ 1:47 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 154.34 km (96 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 154.34 km, -76.1039° West, 4.3433° North. Event id: us600079ay. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600079ay.

Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Pereira (c. 440 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Armenia (c. 315 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Palmira (c. 248 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Dos Quebradas (c. 179 600 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Tuluá (c. 165 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Cartago (c. 134 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palestina, Palmira, Chinchiná.

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 6 km SSW of Zarzal, Colombia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-76.1039° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	4.3433° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	154.34 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km SSW of Zarzal, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-05 13:47:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-21 17:53:19	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	284	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	1.845	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	66	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	us600079ay	Id of event.
Event Code	600079ay	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600079ay,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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