Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Piedecuesta in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Piedecuesta in Colombia. Exact location, longitude -73.1015° West, latitude 6.8782° North, depth = 151.019 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 151.019 km (94 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000px4q. Event ids that are associated: us6000px4q. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/03/25 / 2025-03-06 00:31:49 / March 6, 2025 @ 12:31 am. The temblor was picked up at 00:31:49 / 12:31 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yondó, Barrancabermeja, Toledo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop). Close country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km SSW of Piedecuesta, Colombia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.1015° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	6.8782° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	151.019 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km SSW of Piedecuesta, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-03-06 00:31:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-30 22:02:23	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	271	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.979	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96	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	us6000px4q	Id of event.
Event Code	6000px4q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000px4q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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