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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Cepitá in Colombia

Posted by admin on February 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.7823S, -73.0089WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Cepitá in Colombia on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -73.0089 West, latitude 6.7823 North, depth = 155.585 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 155.585 km (97 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:48:19 / 3:48 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/02/25 / 2025-02-17 15:48:19 / February 17, 2025 @ 3:48 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pe90. Unique identifier: us7000pe90.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Belén, Sabana de Torres, Toledo. Epicenter of the event was 40 km (25 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from San Gil (c. 33 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Málaga (c. 18 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 4 km NW of Cepitá, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.0089° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.7823° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 155.585 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km NW of Cepitá, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-17 15:48:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-17 16:04:56 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 326 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 0.887 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us7000pe90 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pe90 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pe90, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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