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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Cepitá in Colombia

Posted by admin on August 7, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.8439S, -73.0492WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Cepitá in Colombia. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mzkf. Unique identifier: us7000mzkf. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/07/24 / 2024-07-08 08:36:25 / July 8, 2024 @ 8:36 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 151.923 km (94 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:36:25 / 8:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -73.0492° West, 6.8439° North, depth 151.923 km.

Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 32 km (20 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Toledo, Sabana de Torres, Pamplona.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 12 km NW of Cepitá, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.0492° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.8439° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 151.923 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km NW of Cepitá, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-07-08 08:36:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-07 05:06:29 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.946 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us7000mzkf Id of event.
Event Code 7000mzkf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mzkf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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