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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake strikes near Maicao in Colombia


Earthquake location 11.5298S, -72.1069WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (mg/mb) was reported Saturday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Maicao in Colombia. The temblor was reported at 09:31:50 / 9:31 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 40.67 km (25 miles). Global time of event 09/05/15 / 2015-05-09 14:31:50 / May 9, 2015 @ 2:31 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -72.1069 West, latitude 11.5298 North, depth 40.67 km, unique identifier, us20002e2t.

Close countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). The epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Maicao (c. 130 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ríohacha (c. 92 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Barrancas (c. 17 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Manaure (c. 9 700 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Uribia (c. 7 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Albania (c. 6 400 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barrancas, Ríohacha, Albania.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1069° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.5298° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km NE of Maicao, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-05-09 14:31:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-05-09 15:19:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4 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 358 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.204 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us20002e2t Id of event.
Event Code 20002e2t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002e2t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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