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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Jordán in Colombia

Posted by admin on November 16, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.8052S, -73.0505WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Jordán in Colombia on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 150.171 km (93 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/11/24 / 2024-11-16 18:25:27 / November 16, 2024 @ 6:25 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us7000ns6u. Event ids that are associated: us7000ns6u. Exact location of event, depth 150.171 km, -73.0505° West, 6.8052° North. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:25:27 / 6:25 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barrancabermeja, Belén, Toledo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 36 km (23 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 9 km NNE of Jordán, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.0505° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.8052° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 150.171 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km NNE of Jordán, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-16 18:25:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-16 18:43:52 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.907 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us7000ns6u Id of event.
Event Code 7000ns6u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ns6u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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