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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 37 km ESE of Guican, Colombia


Earthquake location 6.2996S, -72.1154WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Guican in Colombia on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us70007uqn. Event ids that are associated: us70007uqn. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -72.1154° West, 6.2996° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 22/02/20 / 2020-02-22 10:14:31 / February 22, 2020 @ 10:14 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 05:14:31 / 5:14 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Tame (c. 29 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Málaga (c. 18 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Soatá (c. 10 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Belén (c. 5 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Belén, Málaga, Soatá (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 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 four and in the last 365 days nineteen 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 37 km ESE of Guican, Colombia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1154° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.2996° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km ESE of Guican, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-22 10:14:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-22 10:34:20 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 2.628 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 78 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 us70007uqn Id of event.
Event Code 70007uqn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007uqn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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