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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Cepitá in Colombia

Posted by admin on February 12, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.851S, -73.01WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Cepitá in Colombia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/02/21 / 2021-02-12 01:57:26 / February 12, 2021 @ 1:57 am. The temblor was detected at 01:57:26 / 1:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -73.01 West, latitude 6.851 North, depth = 146.02 km. Unique identifier: us6000dgv4. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000dgv4. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 146.02 km (91 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Belén, Barrancabermeja, Chinácota (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 six and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km NNW of Cepitá, Colombia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.01° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.851° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 146.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 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 2021-02-12 01:57:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-12 02:16:10 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 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 0.955 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us6000dgv4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dgv4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dgv4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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