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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Tibu in Colombia

Posted by admin on April 14, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.3641S, -72.7072WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Tibu in Colombia. Event id: us10008hqe. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008hqe. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 180.77 km (112 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.7072 West, latitude 8.3641 North, depth = 180.77 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/04/17 / 2017-04-14 22:16:06 / April 14, 2017 @ 10:16 pm. The temblor was detected at 17:16:06 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Martín, San Cristóbal, Chinácota (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (35 miles) from Cúcuta (c. 721 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from San Cristóbal (c. 246 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Ocaña (c. 83 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Villa del Rosario (c. 65 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Los Patios (c. 58 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Rubio (c. 51 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from San Juan de Colón (c. 38 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Colombia (c. 47 790 000 pop), Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 30 km S of Tibu, Colombia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.7072° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.3641° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 180.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km S of Tibu, Colombia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-14 22:16:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-14 22:38:17 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 4.1 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 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 2.483 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us10008hqe Id of event.
Event Code 10008hqe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008hqe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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