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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Mesetas in Colombia

Posted by admin on December 16, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 3.3936S, -74.2972WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Mesetas in Colombia. Event id: us200081nl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200081nl. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 59.74 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -74.2972 West, latitude 3.3936 North, depth = 59.74 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/12/16 / 2016-12-16 19:45:20 / December 16, 2016 @ 7:45 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 14:45:20 / 2:45 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Melgar, Carmen de Apicalá, Natagaima. Country/countries that might be effected, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Acacías (c. 40 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Granada (c. 32 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Melgar (c. 26 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Martín (c. 16 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Natagaima (c. 11 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Purificación (c. 10 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Carmen de Apicalá (c. 5 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 28 km W of Mesetas, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.2972° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.3936° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km W of Mesetas, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-16 19:45:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-16 20:17:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.441 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us200081nl Id of event.
Event Code 200081nl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200081nl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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