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

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Jordán in Colombia on Saturday. Event id: us7000nv23. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nv23. The temblor was detected at 04:22:28 / 4:22 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 165.834 km (103 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/11/24 / 2024-11-30 04:22:28 / November 30, 2024 @ 4:22 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -73.1001 West, latitude 6.6689 North, depth = 165.834 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Duitama (c. 92 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barrancabermeja, Duitama, Pamplona.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km S of Jordán, Colombia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.1001° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.6689° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	165.834 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km S 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	2024-11-30 04:22:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-30 04:58:05	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	50	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.772	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	59	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	us7000nv23	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nv23	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nv23,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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