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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Tauramena in Colombia


Earthquake location 5.0245S, -72.7449WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Tauramena in Colombia on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 60.56 km (38 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/04/20 / 2020-04-25 15:30:55 / April 25, 2020 @ 3:30 pm. Unique identifier: us60009c8u. Ids that are associated to the event: us60009c8u. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:30:55 / 10:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -72.7449° West, latitude 5.0245° North, depth = 60.56 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Villapinzón, Duitama (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Sogamoso (c. 126 600 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Tunja (c. 117 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Duitama (c. 92 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Yopal (c. 61 000 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Villanueva (c. 20 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Aguazul (c. 15 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Paipa (c. 13 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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: 0 km NE of Tauramena, Colombia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.7449° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 5.0245° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km NE of Tauramena, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-25 15:30:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-25 17:47:52 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 340 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 1.58 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us60009c8u Id of event.
Event Code 60009c8u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009c8u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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