Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Bucaramanga in Colombia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Bucaramanga in Colombia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/04/25 / 2025-04-06 06:38:10 / April 6, 2025 @ 6:38 am. The temblor was detected at 06:38:10 / 6:38 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 154.712 km (96 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -73.0956 West, latitude 7.1159 North, depth = 154.712 km. Event id: us6000q6rh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000q6rh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto Wilches, Yondó, Barrancabermeja. The epicenter was 3 km (2 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Pamplona (c. 53 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km ESE of Bucaramanga, Colombia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.0956° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.1159° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	154.712 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km ESE of Bucaramanga, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-06 06:38:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-23 08:15:22	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.005	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	233	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	us6000q6rh	Id of event.
Event Code	6000q6rh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000q6rh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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