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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Jordán in Colombia

Posted by admin on July 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.8021S, -73.0487WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Jordán in Colombia on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 173.64 km (108 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000am18. Unique identifier: us7000am18. Exact location of earthquake, -73.0487° West, 6.8021° North, depth 173.64 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:26:45 / 8:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/07/20 / 2020-07-11 20:26:45 / July 11, 2020 @ 8:26 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barrancabermeja, Belén, Toledo. Close country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 37 km (23 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km NE of Jordán, Colombia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.0487° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.8021° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 173.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km NE of Jordán, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-11 20:26:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-11 20:47:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 312 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 2.32 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us7000am18 Id of event.
Event Code 7000am18 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000am18, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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