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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Puerto Parra in Colombia


Earthquake location 6.541S, -74.1WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Puerto Parra in Colombia. The temblor was picked up at 07:55:51 / 7:55 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.4 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/07/16 / 2016-07-09 12:55:51 / July 9, 2016 @ 12:55 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us20006ewa. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006ewa. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -74.1° West, latitude 6.541° North, depth = 15.4 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Moniquirá, Socorro, Puerto Wilches (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Segovia (c. 39 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Puerto Berrío (c. 34 000 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Puerto Boyacá (c. 27 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Barbosa (c. 20 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Socorro (c. 17 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Puerto Wilches (c. 13 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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 Puerto Parra, Colombia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.1° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.541° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SSW of Puerto Parra, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-09 12:55:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-24 08:20:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 312 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us20006ewa Id of event.
Event Code 20006ewa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006ewa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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