Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Cepitá in Colombia

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Cepitá in Colombia on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude -72.998 West, latitude 6.8021 North, depth = 151.78 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000acbg. Event ids that are associated: us7000acbg. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 151.78 km (94 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/06/20 / 2020-06-22 20:02:31 / June 22, 2020 @ 8:02 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 20:02:31 / 8:02 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Belén, Sabana de Torres, Toledo. Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop).

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

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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: 5 km NNW of Cepitá, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.998° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.8021° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	151.78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km NNW of Cepitá, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-06-22 20:02:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-03 18:41:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	271	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	2.348	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	105	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	us7000acbg	Id of event.
Event Code	7000acbg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000acbg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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