Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Aratoca in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Aratoca in Colombia on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.9509 West, latitude 6.7596 North, depth = 156.88 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 156.88 km (97 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70008gxz. Unique identifier: us70008gxz. The temblor was detected at 21:54:47 / 9:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/03/20 / 2020-03-17 02:54:47 / March 17, 2020 @ 2:54 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sabana de Torres, Belén, El Playón (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km NE of Aratoca, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.9509° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.7596° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	156.88 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km NE 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	2020-03-17 02:54:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-01 21:52:12	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	2.34	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	46	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	us70008gxz	Id of event.
Event Code	70008gxz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008gxz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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