Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Puerto Wilches in Colombia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Puerto Wilches in Colombia on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008thx. Id of event: us20008thx. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:30:19 / 5:30 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/03/17 / 2017-03-21 10:30:19 / March 21, 2017 @ 10:30 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 101.24 km (63 miles). Exact location, longitude -73.88° West, latitude 7.226° North, depth = 101.24 km.

Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Piedecuesta, San Martín, Segovia (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Bucaramanga (c. 571 800 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Floridablanca (c. 252 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Barrancabermeja (c. 191 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Girón (c. 108 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Piedecuesta (c. 86 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Segovia (c. 39 900 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Puerto Wilches (c. 13 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km S of Puerto Wilches, Colombia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-73.88° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.226° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	101.24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km S of Puerto Wilches, Colombia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-03-21 10:30:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-21 11:39:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	341	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	2.405	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	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	us20008thx	Id of event.
Event Code	20008thx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008thx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.7 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-73.88° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

7.226° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

101.24 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

13km S of Puerto Wilches, Colombia

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2017-03-21 10:30:19

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-03-21 11:39:53

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

3.1

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

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

341

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

2.405

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.09 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

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us20008thx

Id of event.

Event Code

20008thx

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us20008thx,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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