Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Ubalá in Colombia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Ubalá in Colombia. Exact location of event, longitude -72.7269 West, latitude 4.6223 North, depth = 10.016 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:41:18 / 11:41 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 26/06/24 / 2024-06-26 23:41:18 / June 26, 2024 @ 11:41 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000na3m. Event ids that are associated: us6000na3m. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.016 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Yopal (c. 61 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Puerto López (c. 16 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Aguazul (c. 15 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Cumaral (c. 11 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Garagoa (c. 11 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Monterrey (c. 7 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guateque, Cumaral, Yopal (min 5000 pop).

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 two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 25 km WSW of Ubalá, Colombia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.7269° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	4.6223° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.016 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25 km WSW of Ubalá, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-06-26 23:41:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-04 02:14:32	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	298	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	37	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.311	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	77	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	us6000na3m	Id of event.
Event Code	6000na3m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000na3m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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