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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Cepitá in Colombia

Posted by admin on December 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.8238S, -73.0296WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Cepitá in Colombia on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 151.58 km (94 miles). Exact location, longitude -73.0296° West, latitude 6.8238° North, depth = 151.58 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000crpn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000crpn. Global time and date of event 16/12/20 / 2020-12-16 23:32:30 / December 16, 2020 @ 11:32 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:32:30 / 11:32 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yondó, Chinácota, Barrancabermeja. Close country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 32 km (20 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 9 km NW of Cepitá, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.0296° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.8238° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 151.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km NW 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 2020-12-16 23:32:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-16 23:48:18 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 369 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 0.926 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us7000crpn Id of event.
Event Code 7000crpn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000crpn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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