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Moderate earthquake: M5.6 quake has struck near Colombia in Colombia

Posted by admin on February 6, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 3.4285S, -74.6649WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Colombia in Colombia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/02/17 / 2017-02-06 13:02:45 / February 6, 2017 @ 1:02 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37.33 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20008hx7. Unique identifier: us20008hx7. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:02:45 / 8:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -74.6649° West, 3.4285° North, depth 37.33 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from Neiva (c. 352 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Girardot City (c. 130 300 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Fusagasuga (c. 88 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Espinal (c. 56 200 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Granada (c. 32 400 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Melgar (c. 26 000 pop), 110 km (69 miles) from Campoalegre (c. 22 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Flandes (c. 20 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rioblanco, Viotá, Silvania (min 5000 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 16 km ENE of Colombia, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -74.6649° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 3.4285° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km ENE of Colombia, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-02-06 13:02:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-06 13:26:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 104 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.08 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 542 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 1.448 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us20008hx7 Id of event.
Event Code 20008hx7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008hx7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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