Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Aratoca in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Aratoca in Colombia on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 07:40:45 / 7:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -73.0082 West, latitude 6.7669 North, depth = 166.43 km. Global time and date of event 07/04/20 / 2020-04-07 12:40:45 / April 7, 2020 @ 12:40 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 166.43 km (103 miles). Event id: us70008wmh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008wmh.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sabana de Torres, Belén, Toledo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km N of Aratoca, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.0082° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.7669° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	166.43 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km N 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	2020-04-07 12:40:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-03 05:30:44	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	246	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	2.313	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	us70008wmh	Id of event.
Event Code	70008wmh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008wmh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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