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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 7 km ESE of Santa Bárbara, Colombia

Posted by admin on July 21, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.9574S, -72.8515WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Santa Bárbara in Colombia on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us7000asp1. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000asp1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:40:11 / 9:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.8515 West, latitude 6.9574 North, depth = 180.98 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 180.98 km (112 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/07/20 / 2020-07-21 21:40:11 / July 21, 2020 @ 9:40 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sabana de Torres, Chinácota, Soatá (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Málaga (c. 18 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 7 km ESE of Santa Bárbara, Colombia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.8515° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.9574° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 180.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km ESE of Santa Bárbara, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-21 21:40:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-21 22:06:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 326 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 2.557 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us7000asp1 Id of event.
Event Code 7000asp1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000asp1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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