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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near El Águila in Colombia

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Earthquake location 4.9416S, -76.0611WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from El Águila in Colombia. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 116.689 km (73 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/04/24 / 2024-04-30 15:44:51 / April 30, 2024 @ 3:44 pm. The temblor was picked up at 15:44:51 / 3:44 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mv7u. Unique identifier: us6000mv7u. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -76.0611° West, 4.9416° North, depth 116.689 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pueblorrico, Tuluá, Pácora (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Pereira (c. 440 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Manizales (c. 357 800 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Armenia (c. 315 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Dos Quebradas (c. 179 600 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Tuluá (c. 165 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Cartago (c. 134 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Chinchiná (c. 68 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 3 km NW of El Águila, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.0611° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.9416° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 116.689 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km NW of El Águila, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-30 15:44:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-30 16:50:07 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 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.349 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us6000mv7u Id of event.
Event Code 6000mv7u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mv7u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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