Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 8 km NE of Montelíbano, Colombia

Posted by admin on May 17, 2024 0 Comments

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Montelíbano in Colombia. Exact location of event, depth 54.489 km, -75.3563° West, 8.0283° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/05/24 / 2024-05-06 15:01:53 / May 6, 2024 @ 3:01 pm. Event id: us6000mwpt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mwpt. The epicenter was at a depth of 54.489 km (34 miles). The temblor was reported at 15:01:53 / 3:01 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Majagual, Montería, Ciénaga de Oro (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) from Montería (c. 272 400 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Montelíbano (c. 85 000 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Caucasia (c. 58 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from El Bagre (c. 40 800 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Planeta Rica (c. 37 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from San Marcos (c. 36 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Tierralta (c. 26 200 pop). Close 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. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

Did you feel anything?

Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km NE of Montelíbano, Colombia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-75.3563° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.0283° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	54.489 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km NE of Montelíbano, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-06 15:01:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-14 14:58:17	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	3.1	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	355	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	111	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.833	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43	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	us6000mwpt	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mwpt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mwpt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 8 km NE of Montelíbano, Colombia

Did you feel anything?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information