A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Jordán in Colombia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000p9zc. Event ids that are associated: us7000p9zc. The temblor was picked up at 05:03:43 / 5:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -73.0795° West, 6.7426° North, depth 152.573 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 152.573 km (95 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 30/01/25 / 2025-01-30 05:03:43 / January 30, 2025 @ 5:03 am UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Yondó, Barrancabermeja (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop).
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. 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 thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 2 km ENE of Jordán, Colombia.
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