Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Mesetas in Colombia

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Mesetas in Colombia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/07/24 / 2024-07-30 05:32:16 / July 30, 2024 @ 5:32 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ngu2. Unique identifier: us6000ngu2. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:32:16 / 5:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -74.1922° West, 3.4337° North.

Epicenter of the event was 78 km (49 miles) from Acacías (c. 40 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Granada (c. 32 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from San Martín (c. 16 300 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Lejanías (c. 5 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Guamal (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Acacías, Guamal, San Martín (min 5000 pop).

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. Each 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: 17 km WNW of Mesetas, Colombia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-74.1922° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	3.4337° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km WNW of Mesetas, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-30 05:32:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-18 05:05:28	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	271	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	3.046	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	us6000ngu2	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ngu2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ngu2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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