Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Riohacha in Colombia

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Riohacha in Colombia on Thursday. Event id: us6000mvna. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mvna. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.748 km (27 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -72.7732° West, 11.4368° North, depth 42.748 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:34:57 / 7:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/05/24 / 2024-05-02 07:34:57 / May 2, 2024 @ 7:34 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Molino, San Juan del Cesar, Uribia. Close country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Maicao (c. 130 300 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Ríohacha (c. 92 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from San Juan del Cesar (c. 26 800 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Fonseca (c. 23 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Barrancas (c. 17 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Manaure (c. 9 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 18 km SE of Riohacha, Colombia.

Barrancas Colombia El Molino Fonseca Maicao Manaure Riohacha San Juan del Cesar Uribia

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.7732° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.4368° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42.748 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km SE of Riohacha, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-02 07:34:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-15 06:53:28	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	4.1	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	285	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.809	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	us6000mvna	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mvna	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mvna,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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