Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Jordán in Colombia

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Jordán in Colombia on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 05:39:36 / 5:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/02/21 / 2021-02-11 05:39:36 / February 11, 2021 @ 5:39 am. Unique identifier: us6000dj4s. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000dj4s. Exact location of event, depth 145.13 km, -73.0564° West, 6.8276° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 145.13 km (90 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Toledo, Sabana de Torres, Pamplona. Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 31 km (20 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop). Close country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 11 km NNE of Jordán, Colombia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.0564° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.8276° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	145.13 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11 km NNE 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	2021-02-11 05:39:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-03-07 13:28:37	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	259	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	0.929	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	59	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	us6000dj4s	Id of event.
Event Code	6000dj4s	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000dj4s,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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