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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Valdivia in Colombia

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Valdivia in Colombia on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 00:52:42 / 12:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 70 km (43 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/12/24 / 2024-12-26 00:52:42 / December 26, 2024 @ 12:52 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pfmi. Id of event: us6000pfmi. Exact location of earthquake, -75.3359° West, 7.4255° North, depth 70 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cisneros, Ayapel, Pueblo Nuevo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 62 km (39 miles) from Montelíbano (c. 85 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Caucasia (c. 58 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from El Bagre (c. 40 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Segovia (c. 39 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Carlos (c. 22 700 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Ayapel (c. 22 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Yarumal (c. 22 400 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 15 km NNE of Valdivia, Colombia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-75.3359° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.4255° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	70 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 km NNE of Valdivia, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-26 00:52:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-26 01:06:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	387	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	69	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.751	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000pfmi	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pfmi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pfmi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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