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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Margarita in Colombia


Earthquake location 9.074S, -74.3168WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Margarita in Colombia on Thursday. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:49:45 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 47.44 km, -74.3168° West, 9.074° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/04/20 / 2020-04-17 04:49:45 / April 17, 2020 @ 4:49 am. Id of earthquake: us70008y5u. Event ids that are associated: us70008y5u. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 47.44 km (29 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Plato, Sincé, Zambrano. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 52 km (32 miles) from Magangué (c. 100 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from El Banco (c. 54 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Plato (c. 48 600 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Mompós (c. 30 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Sincé (c. 30 800 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Sucre (c. 23 200 pop).

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

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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. 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: 10 km SSW of Margarita, Colombia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.3168° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.074° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SSW of Margarita, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-17 04:49:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-17 05:01:47 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 298 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 4.201 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us70008y5u Id of event.
Event Code 70008y5u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008y5u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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