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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 11 km NNW of Aratoca, Colombia


Earthquake location 6.7897S, -73.0575WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Aratoca in Colombia on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008hq3. Unique identifier: us70008hq3. 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 162.85 km (101 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -73.0575° West, 6.7897° North, depth 162.85 km. The temblor was reported at 00:55:10 / 12:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/03/20 / 2020-03-28 05:55:10 / March 28, 2020 @ 5:55 am.

The epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Yondó, Barrancabermeja (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km NNW of Aratoca, Colombia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.0575° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.7897° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 162.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NNW of Aratoca, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-28 05:55:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-28 06:12:43 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 369 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 2.305 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 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 us70008hq3 Id of event.
Event Code 70008hq3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008hq3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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