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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near San Andres in Colombia


Earthquake location 6.7502S, -72.9388WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from San Andres in Colombia. The temblor was reported at 01:48:40 / 1:48 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -72.9388 West, latitude 6.7502 North, depth = 164.59 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/05/20 / 2020-05-12 06:48:40 / May 12, 2020 @ 6:48 am. Unique identifier: us70009el5. Ids that are associated to the event: us70009el5. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 164.59 km (102 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sabana de Torres, El Playón, Belén (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Event epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 11 km SW of San Andres, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.9388° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.7502° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 164.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SW of San Andres, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-12 06:48:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-12 07:03:02 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 2.339 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us70009el5 Id of event.
Event Code 70009el5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009el5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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